Mechanical Engineering

919 programs at U.S. colleges award 43,515 credentials a year in this field (CIP 14.19). Bachelor's graduates nationally earn a median of $92,135 four years after graduating.

Highest-paying Bachelor's degree programs

College	Earnings (1 yr)	Median debt	Graduates
Cal Poly Maritime Academy Vallejo, CA	$92,315	$19,690	19
Duke University Durham, NC	$89,938	$10,000	73
University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	$88,497	$13,000	188
Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Needham, MA	$87,590	—	28
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	$85,440	$15,500	132
Princeton University Princeton, NJ	$85,328	—	45
University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	$84,999	$18,910	101
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	$83,957	$11,507	141
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	$83,356	$14,250	101
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA	$83,011	$20,500	278
Rice University Houston, TX	$82,899	$15,375	65
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	$82,823	$20,500	239
George Washington University Washington, DC	$82,361	$21,375	37
The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	$82,227	$18,500	275
Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA	$81,865	$19,000	36
University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	$81,108	$15,000	82
Villanova University Villanova, PA	$80,962	$25,995	73
Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	$80,374	$19,500	478
Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	$80,259	$23,250	279
Northeastern University Boston, MA	$80,255	$25,547	231
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	$80,187	$20,193	228
University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks, AK	$79,438	$18,000	16
Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA	$79,391	$19,500	46
Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	$79,359	$19,932	218
Kettering University Flint, MI	$79,307	$28,000	157

Highest-paying Master's degree programs

College	Earnings (1 yr)	Median debt	Graduates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	$155,889	$45,290	149
Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA	$124,058	—	14
Stanford University Stanford, CA	$121,408	$41,000	148
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	$114,588	—	144
University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	$112,996	—	123
University of New Mexico-Main Campus Albuquerque, NM	$111,653	—	41
University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	$108,892	$20,500	87
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA	$107,230	—	68
University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	$106,735	—	139
Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	$105,764	—	219
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	$105,575	—	69
Oakland University Rochester Hills, MI	$105,451	—	36
University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI	$105,227	—	43
Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	$104,503	—	154
Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO	$103,336	—	15
Pennsylvania State University-World Campus University Park, PA	$102,645	—	14
Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	$102,645	—	37
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Harrisburg Middletown, PA	$102,645	—	4
University of Houston Houston, TX	$101,655	—	32
University of St Thomas Saint Paul, MN	$101,540	—	14
University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	$101,504	$32,207	109
Cornell University Ithaca, NY	$99,587	$21,805	85
The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	$99,576	—	64
University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	$98,933	—	41
California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA	$98,565	—	21

Highest-paying Doctoral degree programs

College	Earnings (1 yr)	Median debt	Graduates
Stanford University Stanford, CA	$143,758	—	42
Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	$119,547	—	85
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	$100,567	—	42
University of Florida Gainesville, FL	$92,933	—	16

Highest-paying First professional degree programs

College	Earnings (1 yr)	Median debt	Graduates
University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	$107,231	$24,250	—