2023 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region

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In 2020-2021, 272 people earned their degree in engineering mechanics, making the major the 308th most popular in the United States. 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.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering mechanics. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering mechanics.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region engineering mechanics students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Southeast Region

1

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia

#7 overall quality in Southeast

$52,444 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,013 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Virginia Tech. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Blacksburg, Virginia, and it awarded 48 ’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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.

Full Virginia Tech Engineering Mechanics Report

2

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

$72,002 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,117 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Mechanics Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 2 ’s engineering mechanics degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. 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

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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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