General Mechanical Engineering at Prairie View A & M University

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

PVAMU is located in Prairie View, Texas and approximately 9,248 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.

PVAMU General Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Mechanical Engineering

PVAMU General Mechanical Engineering Rankings

The general mechanical engineering major at PVAMU 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 PVAMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general mechanical engineering majors at Prairie View A & M University.

PVAMU General Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 77% of general mechanical engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 23% 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 PVAMU since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 60% 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 Prairie View A & M University with a bachelor's in general mechanical engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	38
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	2
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 TX, the home state for Prairie View A & M University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Mechanical Engineers	20,820	$105,570
Cost Estimators	17,240	$73,950
Architectural and Engineering Managers	12,920	$167,280
Aerospace Engineers	6,770	$122,570
Engineering Professors	3,890	$123,200

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.