Mechanical Engineering at The College of New Jersey

If you are interested in studying mechanical engineering, you may want to check out the program at The College of New Jersey. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

TCNJ is located in Ewing, New Jersey and has a total student population of 7,783. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 41 students received a bachelor's degree in ME from TCNJ.

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.

TCNJ Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in ME

TCNJ Mechanical Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks ME programs across the country. The following shows how TCNJ performed in these rankings.

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 TCNJ 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
Best Mechanical Engineering Schools	40
Best Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	40
Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools	51

Earnings of TCNJ ME Graduates

The median salary of ME students who receive their bachelor's degree at TCNJ is $68,949. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 6% higher than the national average of $65,190 for all ME bachelor's degree recipients.

ME Student Demographics at TCNJ

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ME majors at The College of New Jersey.

TCNJ Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 78% of ME bachelor's degrees went to men and 22% went to women. The typical ME bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at TCNJ since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in ME at TCNJ are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 The College of New Jersey with a bachelor's in ME.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Engineering Science
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Biomedical 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 NJ, the home state for The College of New Jersey.

Occupation	Jobs in NJ	Average Salary in NJ
Cost Estimators	5,270	$75,340
Mechanical Engineers	5,090	$95,680
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,020	$163,440
Aerospace Engineers	1,840	$115,850

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 Tomwsulcer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.