2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Engineering Mechanics is the 308th most popular major in the country with 272 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering mechanics graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $64,399 and had an average of $24,558 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 50 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,144 and $28,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering mechanics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering mechanics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Engineering Mechanics at Virginia Tech

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Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s engineering mechanics degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Engineering Mechanics at Georgia Tech

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for 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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