2023 Most Well Attended ME Major in North Dakota for a Doctorate

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 North Dakota for a Doctorate” 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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,116 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended ME Major in North Dakota for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in mechanical engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in mechanical engineering.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended ME Major in North Dakota for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended ME Major in North Dakota for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Mechanical Engineering in North Dakota

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Dakota. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended ME Major in North Dakota for a Doctorate. University of North Dakota is a public institution located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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%.

Read full report on Mechanical Engineering at UND

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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 #1 for the Most Well Attended ME Major in North Dakota for a Doctorate. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s ME degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University

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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.