General Mechanical Engineering at United States Coast Guard Academy

If you plan to study general mechanical engineering, take a look at what United States Coast Guard Academy has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

USCGA is located in New London, Connecticut and approximately 1,056 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.

USCGA General Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Mechanical Engineering

USCGA General Mechanical Engineering Rankings

The general mechanical engineering major at USCGA 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 USCGA

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the general mechanical engineering majors at United States Coast Guard Academy.

USCGA 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 USCGA since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in general mechanical engineering at USCGA 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 United States Coast Guard Academy with a bachelor's in general mechanical engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	28
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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 CT, the home state for United States Coast Guard Academy.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Mechanical Engineers	4,020	$94,270
Architectural and Engineering Managers	3,570	$143,920
Cost Estimators	1,840	$74,910
Aerospace Engineers	1,130	$106,790
Engineering Professors	420	$100,280

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 USCG Public Affairs photograph of United States Coast Guard under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.