by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho” 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 Idaho, there were 337 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,964 and $24,465 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,135 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho” ranking, we looked at 3 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Moscow, Idaho, this fairly large public school handed out 19 diplomas to qualified masters’s ME students 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%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Boise State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Boise State University is a public institution located in Boise, Idaho. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, Idaho State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Pocatello, Idaho is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s ME degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
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