General Mechanical Engineering is a concentration offered under the mechanical engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in general mechanical engineering, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at RPI was $2,320 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $55,600 | $55,600 |
Fees | $2,725 | $2,725 |
RPI does not offer an online option for its general mechanical engineering master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the RPI Online Learning page.
Women made up around 33.3% of the general mechanical engineering students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17.2%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in general mechanical engineering at RPI in 2019-2020, 33.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 4 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 17 |
International Students | 5 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
*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.