2025 Best General Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
89Doctor's Degrees
General Mechanical Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #18 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for general mechanical engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 89 doctor's degrees in general mechanical engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great General Mechanical Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
The general mechanical engineering doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general mechanical engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general mechanical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general mechanical engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general mechanical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Mechanical Engineering Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Mechanical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Rankings in Majors Related to General Mechanical Engineering
One of 0 majors within the Mechanical Engineering area of study, General Mechanical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
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Notes and References
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The general mechanical engineering doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
