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Most Popular Schools for Mechanical Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of physical systems used in manufacturing and end-product systems used for specific uses, including machine tools, jigs and other manufacturing equipment; stationary power units and appliances; engines; self-propelled vehicles; housings and containers; hydraulic and electric systems for controlling movement; and the integration of computers and remote control with operating systems.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 724 11% $28,776
2 Purdue University-Main Campus 556 5% $22,822
3 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 527 4% $36,652
4 University of Florida 494 4% $21,211
5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 465 4% $30,298
6 Arizona State University-Tempe 445 3% $28,048
7 Iowa State University 431 5% $21,186
8 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 427 5% $26,834
9 The University of Texas at Arlington 419 3% $26,660
10 Texas A & M University-College Station 393 2% $29,506
11 Michigan Technological University 383 23% $29,969
12 University of Maryland-College Park 377 4% $27,146
13 Texas Tech University 374 5% $24,472
14 Colorado School of Mines 371 25% $35,498
15 Northeastern University 368 6% $70,592
16 University of Central Florida 351 2% $22,548
17 The University of Texas at Austin 340 2% $26,506
18 University of California-Berkeley 333 3% $38,066
19 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 333 12% $70,240
20 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 320 4% $23,977
21 The University of Alabama 316 4% $29,872
22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 315 3% $30,102
23 University of Colorado Boulder 309 4% $31,044
24 San Diego State University 302 3% $29,318
25 Washington State University 301 4% $27,484
26 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 297 3% $27,476
27 Stevens Institute of Technology 295 10% $69,292
28 Oregon State University 292 4% $26,892
29 Ohio State University-Main Campus 288 2% $27,367
30 Auburn University 287 5% $31,590
31 University at Buffalo 286 4% $27,758
32 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 285 5% $24,105
33 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 281 4% $28,891
34 University of California-Los Angeles 278 2% $34,620
35 University of South Florida-Main Campus 275 2% $23,320
36 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 273 4% $23,694
37 Drexel University 272 4% $70,223
38 Clemson University 271 4% $31,270
39 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 266 5% $28,302
40 University of California-Irvine 261 3% $34,261
41 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 261 2% $32,443
42 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 260 15% $67,504
43 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 255 2% $27,898
44 Missouri University of Science and Technology 255 10% $22,440
45 University of Houston 252 3% $23,225
46 University of Illinois at Chicago 251 4% $30,866
47 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis 250 4% $22,537
48 California State University-Long Beach 246 2% $24,738
49 Wayne State University 245 4% $27,157
50 Michigan State University 244 2% $28,862
51 Rochester Institute of Technology 243 6% $57,401
52 University of Dayton 237 9% $59,230
53 Boston University 235 2% $72,618
54 University of Utah 232 3% $24,472
55 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 229 3% $33,503
56 Carnegie Mellon University 227 5% $72,283
57 University of Michigan-Dearborn 224 10% $14,230
58 Clarkson University 223 19% $68,112
59 San Jose State University 220 2% $29,193
60 California State University-Fullerton 220 2% $27,738
61 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 220 5% $30,552
62 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 219 12% $71,998
63 California State University-Sacramento 218 3% $26,454
64 New Jersey Institute of Technology 217 8% $37,738
65 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 217 2% $27,638
66 The University of Texas at San Antonio 215 3% $23,715
67 University of Wisconsin-Madison 214 2% $26,025
68 University of Southern California 214 1% $74,825
69 The University of Texas at Dallas 214 3% $29,286
70 Cornell University 213 3% $73,904
71 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 207 3% $26,231
72 Kennesaw State University 206 3% $25,773
73 University of North Texas 204 2% $24,712
74 Brigham Young University-Provo 203 3% $18,776
75 The University of Texas at El Paso 203 4% $23,843
76 Stanford University 200 5% $71,587
77 California State University-Northridge 199 2% $22,969
78 Tennessee Technological University 199 8% $26,131
79 Kettering University 195 37% $60,427
80 University of California-San Diego 194 2% $32,838
81 University of Akron Main Campus 194 4% $27,279
82 University of Wisconsin-Platteville 192 11% $19,323
83 Kansas State University 190 4% $24,923
84 Northern Arizona University 190 2% $27,266
85 University of South Carolina-Columbia 188 2% $28,301
86 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 187 3% $31,510
87 West Virginia University 185 3% $23,294
88 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 185 2% $30,913
89 University of Missouri-Columbia 183 2% $26,766
90 University of Kentucky 181 3% $30,101
91 University of Toledo 178 4% $28,423
92 Oakland University 178 4% $25,524
93 Mississippi State University 177 4% $24,957
94 Columbia University in the City of New York 177 1% $76,856
95 University of Louisville 176 4% $27,980
96 Lawrence Technological University 171 20% $49,428
97 University of Arkansas 169 3% $25,500
98 Stony Brook University 168 3% $26,091
99 Wright State University-Main Campus 167 4% $25,116
100 University of California-Davis 167 2% $35,177

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Mechanical Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.