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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics

4 Ranked Colleges
89 Degrees Awarded
$21,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor's

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

General Engineering Mechanics is the 707th most popular major in the country with 257 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 89 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering mechanics. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general engineering mechanics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general engineering mechanics program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree general engineering mechanics students.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s. Blacksburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees to 26 students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech also took the #3 spot in our “Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Virginia Tech is $21,198 for Bachelor’s Degree General Engineering Mechanics students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIUC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is $15,880 for Bachelor’s Degree General Engineering Mechanics students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Engineering Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 35 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general engineering mechanics students in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend UW - Madison is $17,708 for Bachelor’s Degree General Engineering Mechanics students.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about General Engineering Mechanics at UW - Madison

#4

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johns Hopkins University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value General Engineering Mechanics Schools for a Bachelor’s. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Engineering Mechanics Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $29,342 for bachelor’s degree general engineering mechanics students per year to attend Johns Hopkins.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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