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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Vermont” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Vermont, there were 132 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,812 and $24,506 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 110 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,418 and $24,482 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Vermont” 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for vermont bachelor’s degree me students.

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

1

Norwich University
Northfield, Vermont

#4 overall quality in Vermont

$40,053 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,011 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Norwich University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Northfield, Vermont, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Norwich University Mechanical Engineering Report

2

University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont

#3 overall quality in Vermont

$57,570 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Vermont. This fairly large school is located in Burlington, Vermont, and it awarded 74 bachelors’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at University of Vermont

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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.