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Largest mechanical engineering programs in the United States

U.S. mechanical engineering programs, ranked by awards conferred in 2024, the latest IPEDS completions year on file. At least 5 schools must offer the program for this list to exist.

Rank	School	City	Sector	Awards conferred
1	Purdue University-Main Campus	West Lafayette	Public, 4-year	819
2	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	Atlanta	Public, 4-year	782
3	Texas A&M University-College Station	College Station	Public, 4-year	668
4	Arizona State University	Tempe	Public, 4-year	508
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor	Public, 4-year	466
6	Pennsylvania State University	University Park	Public, 4-year	450
7	University of California-Berkeley	Berkeley	Public, 4-year	447
8	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Blacksburg	Public, 4-year	446
9	University of Central Florida	Orlando	Public, 4-year	428
10	University of Florida	Gainesville	Public, 4-year	418
11	The University of Texas at Austin	Austin	Public, 4-year	405
12	University of Colorado	Boulder	Public, 4-year	405
13	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Champaign	Public, 4-year	398
14	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	Raleigh	Public, 4-year	397
15	Oregon State University	Corvallis	Public, 4-year	382
16	Colorado School of Mines	Golden	Public, 4-year	378
17	Iowa State University	Ames	Public, 4-year	369
18	Northeastern University	Boston	Private nonprofit, 4-year	357
19	Texas Tech University	Lubbock	Public, 4-year	348
20	Ohio State University	Columbus	Public, 4-year	346
21	University of Maryland-College Park	College Park	Public, 4-year	345
22	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison	Public, 4-year	341
23	University of California-Los Angeles	Los Angeles	Public, 4-year	322
24	Michigan State University	East Lansing	Public, 4-year	312
25	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo	Public, 4-year	309

Completions counts total awards conferred, summed across every credential level, from IPEDS.

How to read this. A larger school naturally confers more awards in a common program; this counts total completions, not selectivity. A campus that is part of one multi-campus system is shown as a single row when more than two of its campuses would otherwise appear.

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