General Mechanical Engineering at Olin College

What traits are you looking for in a general mechanical engineering school? To help you decide if Olin College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's general mechanical engineering program.

Olin College is located in Needham, Massachusetts and approximately 310 students attend the school each year.

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

Olin College General Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Mechanical Engineering

Olin College General Mechanical Engineering Rankings

The general mechanical engineering major at Olin College is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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.

General Mechanical Engineering Student Demographics at Olin College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general mechanical engineering majors at Olin College.

Olin College General Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of general mechanical engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical general mechanical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% women. So female students are more repesented at Olin College since its program graduates 43% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general mechanical engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Olin College with a bachelor's in general mechanical engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Careers That General Mechanical Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in general mechanical engineering 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 Olin College.

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.