Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University

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

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 30,391. In 2021, 11 ME majors received their bachelor's degree from Harvard.

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.

Harvard Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in ME

Harvard Mechanical Engineering Rankings

The ME major at Harvard 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.

ME Student Demographics at Harvard

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

Harvard Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in ME from Harvard. About 73% were men and 27% were women. The typical ME bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at Harvard since its program graduates 10% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% more racial-ethnic minorities in its ME bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	2
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Electrical Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Computer Engineering
• Engineering Science

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 MA, the home state for Harvard University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Mechanical Engineers	9,130	$98,190
Architectural and Engineering Managers	8,190	$156,250
Cost Estimators	6,030	$77,670
Engineering Professors	1,880	$135,140
Aerospace Engineers	630	$119,700

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 Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.