by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended ME Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate” 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 Pennsylvania, there were 2,232 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,068 and $25,287 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended ME Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechanical engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful mechanical engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended ME Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania associate degree me students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montgomery County Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended ME Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate. Montgomery County Community College is a public institution located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 15 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Francis University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended ME Major in Pennsylvania for an Associate. Saint Francis is a small school located in Loretto, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 associates’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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