2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Mechanics in the Great Lakes 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 “Most Well Attended Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Great Lakes region, there were 94 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,526 and $22,838 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 78 engineering mechanics graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering mechanics. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in engineering mechanics.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s”.

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

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

#6 overall quality in Great Lakes

$61,649 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,500 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Madison, Wisconsin, this large public school handed out 46 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s engineering mechanics students in 2020-2021.

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%. 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 full report on Engineering Mechanics at University of Wisconsin - Madison

2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

$67,403 Average Early-Career Earnings

$19,175 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Mechanics Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering mechanics degrees to 32 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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 Engineering Mechanics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Most Popular Bachelor’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.

Credits

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