by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Mechanical Engineering is the 21st most popular major in the country with 46,178 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 2,232 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,068 and $25,287 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in Pennsylvania” 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.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania associate degree me students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Montgomery County Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Blue Bell, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s ME degrees to 15 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Francis University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on ME Major in Pennsylvania list. Saint Francis University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Loretto, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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