2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major 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 has developed its “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2020-2021, 46,178 people earned their degree in mechanical engineering, making the major the 21st most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, mechanical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $69,007 and had an average of $23,944 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 7,978 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,318 and $24,852 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechanical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in mechanical engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The me school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree me students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

1

Stark State College
North Canton, Ohio

$10,019 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stark State College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Stark State College is a fairly large school located in North Canton, Ohio that handed out 10 associates’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at Stark State College

2

Henry Ford College
Dearborn, Michigan

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Henry Ford College landed the #2 spot on the list. Henry Ford College is a fairly large public school situated in Dearborn, Michigan. It awarded 1 associates’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Henry Ford College Mechanical Engineering Report

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering

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.