2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering in District of Columbia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Mechanical Engineering is the 14th most popular major in the country with 46,178 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across District of Columbia, there were 176 general mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 121 general mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in general mechanical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general mechanical engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree general mechanical engineering students.

Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Mechanical Engineering in District of Columbia

1

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s general mechanical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full University of the District of Columbia General Mechanical Engineering Report

2

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Washington, District of Columbia, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 35 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general mechanical engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 full report on General Mechanical Engineering at CUA

3

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia. Howard is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 24 bachelors’s general mechanical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on General Mechanical Engineering at Howard

4

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Mechanical Engineering Major in District of Columbia. GWU is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 42 bachelors’s general mechanical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.

Full George Washington University General Mechanical Engineering 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.