by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 North Carolina, there were 918 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,367 and $22,857 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 703 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,368 and $25,940 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in mechanical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in mechanical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina bachelor’s degree me students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina A & T State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina list. NC A&T is a fairly large school located in Greensboro, North Carolina that handed out 95 bachelors’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 285 degrees to qualified bachelors’s ME students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina at Charlotte landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this large public school handed out 213 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s ME students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina list. This fairly large school is located in Durham, North Carolina, and it awarded 90 bachelors’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Campbell University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Carolina list. Buies Creek, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s ME degrees to 20 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.
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