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 Temple University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in ME, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, 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. The bachelor's program at Temple was ranked #185 on College Factual's Best Schools for ME list. It is also ranked #11 in Pennsylvania.
Here are some of the other rankings for Temple.
During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at Temple paid an average of $1,208 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $670 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $16,080 | $28,992 |
Fees | $890 | $890 |
Books and Supplies | $1,494 | $1,494 |
On Campus Room and Board | $14,778 | $14,778 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,462 | $2,462 |
Learn more about Temple tuition and fees.
One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Temple in ME walked away with an average of $27,000 in student debt. That is 18% higher than the national average of $22,913.
The median early career salary of ME students who receive their bachelor’s degree from Temple is $61,778 per year. That is about the same as the national average of $61,915.
Temple 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 Temple Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their bachelor’s degree in ME in 2019-2020, 15.9% of them were women. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 16.3%.
Around 26.8% of ME bachelor’s degree recipients at Temple in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 28%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 19 |
Black or African American | 8 |
Hispanic or Latino | 8 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 78 |
International Students | 20 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 5 |
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 | 138 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to mechanical engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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General Engineering | 4 |
Biomedical Engineering | 59 |
Civil Engineering | 80 |
Electrical Engineering | 84 |
Environmental Engineering | 6 |
*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.