by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended ME Major in Kansas for a Master’s” 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 Kansas, there were 445 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,700 and $22,763 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 mechanical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,354 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended ME Major in Kansas for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 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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The colleges and universities below are the best for kansas master’s degree me students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended ME Major in Kansas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Wichita State University landed the #1 spot on the list. WSU is located in Wichita, Kansas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 masters’s ME degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended ME Major in Kansas for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified masters’s ME students 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Kansas State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended ME Major in Kansas for a Master’s list. K -State is a large public school situated in Manhattan, Kansas. It awarded 3 masters’s ME degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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