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Mechanical engineering at Harvard

Harvard graduates about 20 mechanical engineering majors a year, 1% of its graduating class. That puts it 45th of 332 schools we score for mechanical engineering, a strong program at 77 out of 100.

77/100Strong#45 of 332 for mechanical engineering →
Graduates a year201% of the class
Research in the field$290Ka year, NSF
Admit rate4%whole school
SAT middle 50%1490–1580whole school

Around Harvard

Happened to catch the glow of the evening sun reflecting on Memorial Hall today.
Memorial Hall, Perfect Evening Light (6670591133)Photo: Tim Sackton from Somerville, MA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
A rack for locking electric scooters outside Cabot Science Library at Harvard Un
Electric scooter rack outside Cabot Science Library Harvard Feb 2025Photo: 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0 · source
Camera location42° 22′ 35.43″ N, 71° 06′ 57.87″ W View this and other nearby ima
Gregorian telescope circa 1735 in Putnam Gallery, 2009-11-24Photo: Sage Ross · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
Person in a wheelchair entering an inbound Red Line train at Harvard Square
Wheelchair user on the Red Line at Harvard station, June 2012jpgPhoto: ArnoldReinhold · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Where mechanical engineering happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Engineering Sciences Lab, Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 130 · Dorm 62 · Student housing 22 · Arts 6 · Library 6 · Chapel 4.

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Nearby in the mechanical engineering ranking

  1. Rutgers University–New Brunswick 77
  2. University of Washington 77
  3. Washington University in St. Louis 77
  4. University of Virginia 77
  5. California Polytechnic State University–San Luis Obispo 76
  6. Drexel University 76
  7. University of Massachusetts–Amherst 76
  8. Boston University 76

Other strong majors at Harvard

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Harvard with every school we score in mechanical engineering. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.

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