2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics in the Great Lakes Region

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General Engineering Mechanics is the 743rd most popular major in the country with 272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 94 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering mechanics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general engineering mechanics.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Wisconsin - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 46 bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Engineering Mechanics at University of Wisconsin - Madison

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 32 bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering Mechanics at UIUC

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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