2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New Hampshire, there were 125 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,926 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 115 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,795 and $26,908 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their mechanical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in New Hampshire

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

$64,957 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire list. UNH is located in Durham, New Hampshire and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 102 bachelors’s ME degrees to qualified students.

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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at UNH

2

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, New Hampshire

#3 overall quality in New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern New Hampshire University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Manchester, New Hampshire, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ME students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at Southern New Hampshire University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in the New England Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s 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.