The main focus area for this major is General Mechanical Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Mechanical Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at Santa Clara University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in ME, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. SCU was ranked #47 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for ME majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #7 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for SCU.
Part-time undergraduates at SCU paid an average of $1,472 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
---|---|---|
Tuition | $52,998 | $52,998 |
Books and Supplies | $1,080 | $1,080 |
On Campus Room and Board | $15,972 | $15,972 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,934 | $2,934 |
Learn more about SCU tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. ME students who received their bachelor’s degree at SCU took out an average of $23,000 in student loans. That is about the same as the national average of $22,913.
The median early career salary of ME students who receive their bachelor’s degree from SCU is $74,576 per year. That is 20% higher than the national average of $61,915.
SCU does not offer an online option for its ME bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the SCU Online Learning page.
Women made up around 22.9% of the ME students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 16.3%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in ME at SCU in 2019-2020, 52.1% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 28%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 8 |
Black or African American | 3 |
Hispanic or Latino | 10 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 23 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 4 |
Mechanical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Mechanical Engineering | 48 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to mechanical engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
---|---|
General Engineering | 3 |
Biomedical Engineering | 37 |
Civil Engineering | 17 |
Computer Engineering | 77 |
Electrical Engineering | 23 |
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*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.