2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Dakota, there were 291 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,195 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,776 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in North Dakota

1

University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Dakota. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota list. University of North Dakota is a fairly large school located in Grand Forks, North Dakota that handed out 8 masters’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at University of North Dakota

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on ME Major in North Dakota. North Dakota State University - Main Campus is located in Fargo, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 6 masters’s ME degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full North Dakota State University Mechanical Engineering Report

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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.