2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Mechanics in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 11 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 general engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering mechanics. That schools that top this list have a program in general engineering mechanics in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

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

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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

#3 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This large school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s general engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate 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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering Mechanics at Johns Hopkins University

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Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York

#6 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Engineering Mechanics Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general engineering mechanics students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Columbia General Engineering Mechanics Report

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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

• *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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