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2023 Most Popular Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

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Finding the Best Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Mechanical Engineering is the #32 most popular major in the country with 9,007 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Mechanical Engineering program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis the most popular school in the Great Lakes Region for mechanical engineering students working on their graduate certificate. IUPUI is a very large public school located in the city of Indianapolis.

Women make up 25% of the ME majors at the school.

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#2

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

Out of the 5 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Purdue University - Main Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Purdue is a very large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Of the 3 students majoring in ME at Purdue, 67% are male and 33% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan Technological University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Mechanical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the town of Houghton, Michigan Tech is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at University of Akron Main Campus helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular mechanical engineering schools in the Great Lakes Region . University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Akron.

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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Michigan - Dearborn is a great place for mechanical engineering students working on their graduate certificate. UM Dearborn is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Dearborn.

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Best Mechanical Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best mechanical engineering schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 592
Illinois 346
Ohio 395
Indiana 282
Wisconsin 96

Mechanical Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Michel Villeneuve.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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