Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year. Of the 9,305 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021, 210 of them were mechanical engineering majors.

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.

UIUC Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in ME
• Master’s Degree in ME
• Doctorate Degree in ME

UIUC Mechanical Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the ME progam at UIUC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The ME major at UIUC 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 Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
	56

In 2021, 61 students received their master’s degree in ME from UIUC. This makes it the #36 most popular school for ME master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 29 students who received their doctoral degrees in ME, making the school the #11 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

How Much Do ME Graduates from UIUC Make?

The median salary of ME students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIUC is $68,804. This is 6% higher than $65,190, which is the national average for all ME bachelor's degree recipients.

ME Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 210 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from UIUC in 2020-2021, 79% were men and 21% were women. The typical ME bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at UIUC since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in ME.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	41
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	22
White	95
International Students	43
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

UIUC Mechanical Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 61 students who earned a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from UIUC in 2020-2021, 85% were men and 15% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's in ME.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	17
International Students	41
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UIUC also has a doctoral program available in ME. In 2021, 29 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• General Engineering
• Engineering Mechanics
• Nuclear Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Operations Research

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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Mechanical Engineers	17,320	$92,030
Architectural and Engineering Managers	9,760	$136,270
Cost Estimators	5,600	$66,480
Engineering Professors	1,330	$114,010

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.