Mechanical Engineering at Gonzaga University

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

Gonzaga is located in Spokane, Washington and has a total student population of 7,295. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 80 students received a bachelor's degree in ME from Gonzaga.

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.

Gonzaga Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in ME

Gonzaga Mechanical Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the ME progam at Gonzaga compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The ME major at Gonzaga is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Mechanical Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Mechanical Engineering Schools	108
Most Popular Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	165
	261

Earnings of Gonzaga ME Graduates

The median salary of ME students who receive their bachelor's degree at Gonzaga is $59,977. This is less than $65,190, which is the national average of all ME majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

ME Student Demographics at Gonzaga

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

Gonzaga Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 81% of ME bachelor's degrees went to men and 19% went to women. The typical ME bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at Gonzaga since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in ME at Gonzaga are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	63
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Gonzaga also has a doctoral program available in ME. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Industrial Engineering
• General Engineering
• Electrical 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 WA, the home state for Gonzaga University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Mechanical Engineers	7,750	$96,860
Cost Estimators	5,470	$77,510
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,290	$154,620
Engineering Professors	800	$101,880

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 Gregg M. Erickson under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.