2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Plains States region, there were 95 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 44 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Plains States 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Plains States Region

1

Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa

#6 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Iowa State University landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Ames, Iowa, and it awarded 44 masters’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Engineering Mechanics at Iowa State

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Plains States Region list. UNL is a public institution located in Lincoln, Nebraska. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln 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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