Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University

If you plan to study mechanical engineering, take a look at what Florida Atlantic University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

FAU is located in Boca Raton, Florida and approximately 30,805 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 16 students received their master's degree in ME.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Mechanical Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

FAU Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in ME
• Doctorate Degree in ME

Online Classes Are Available at FAU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? FAU offers distance education options for ME at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

FAU Mechanical Engineering Rankings

There were 1 student who received their doctoral degrees in ME, making the school the #136 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

ME Student Demographics at FAU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ME majors at Florida Atlantic University.

FAU Mechanical Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 16 students who earned a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from FAU in 2020-2021, 88% were men and 13% were women.

In the ME master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 19% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a master's in ME.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Ocean Engineering
• Civil Engineering

Careers That ME Grads May Go Into

A degree in ME can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for FL, the home state for Florida Atlantic University.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Cost Estimators	13,220	$62,370
Mechanical Engineers	7,370	$87,770
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,030	$129,850
Aerospace Engineers	2,750	$105,460
Engineering Professors	1,170	$117,170

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Kmgcoolguy4 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.