Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University

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

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,365 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University in 2021, 49 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.

Vanderbilt Mechanical Engineering Degrees Available

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

Vanderbilt Mechanical Engineering Rankings

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

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 Vanderbilt 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	17
Best Mechanical Engineering Schools	17
Best Value Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	139
Best Value Mechanical Engineering Schools	191

In 2021, 7 students received their master’s degree in ME from Vanderbilt. This makes it the #178 most popular school for ME master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 10 students who received their doctoral degrees in ME, making the school the #54 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Earnings of Vanderbilt ME Graduates

The median salary of ME students who receive their bachelor's degree at Vanderbilt is $69,605. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 7% higher than the national average of $65,190 for all ME bachelor's degree recipients.

ME Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt Mechanical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 82% of ME bachelor's degrees went to men and 18% went to women. The typical ME bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at Vanderbilt since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% 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 Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's in ME.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	20
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Vanderbilt Mechanical Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 7 students who earned a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt in 2020-2021, 86% were men and 14% were women.

Of the students who received a ME master's degree from Vanderbilt, 57% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the ME master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 29% of degree recipients. That is 1% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with a master's in ME.

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

Vanderbilt also has a doctoral program available in ME. In 2021, 10 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• General Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Civil 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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Mechanical Engineers	3,950	$87,990
Architectural and Engineering Managers	3,300	$129,320
Cost Estimators	2,870	$63,770
Engineering Professors	610	$107,480
Aerospace Engineers	300	$88,180

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 Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.