February 5, 2020
The median annual salary for recent OU mechanical engineering graduates is among the highest in the nation, according to new rankings by GradReports.com.
As part of its 2020 rankings of the best colleges and graduate schools, the website ranked the top 25 median annual salaries of graduates one year out of college for bachelor’s and master’s programs in mechanical engineering.
Based on data from the U.S. Department of Education, Oakland’s mechanical engineering master’s graduates earn the third-highest median annual salary among master’s graduates in the field, who are one year out of college. Their reported median annual salary of $90,900 trails only Stanford ($102,700) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($108,700).
Oakland’s mechanical engineering bachelor’s graduates one year out of college reported a median annual salary of $73,500 – tied with Duke University for eighth on the list, and ahead of Lawrence Tech, Wayne State, Michigan State, Saginaw Valley State and Central Michigan.
According to GradReports.com, the rankings are the first to be based on median early-career salary data of over 5 million graduates from the U.S. Department of Education's resource, College Scorecard.