<p>Need help on the top ten engineering mechanics ranking.</p>
<p>Thank you, I appreciate the help.</p>
<p>It probably isn’t formally ranked since its not a common major anymore.</p>
<p>I’m kind of confused what the main difference would be from Mechanical Engineering and what the advantage/disadvantage of engineering mechanics would be in comparison to ME. I heard that its more broad as it studies the foundation of most engineering disciplines. Can any of you elaborate more on this?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Mechanical engineering is much more applied than straight mechanics. Mechanics is a more fundamental major. It is the basis of mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering, though it applies less to civil than the other two. It usually has fewer or no design courses and has more classes in fluids and/or continuum mechanics and/or fatigue. It is sort of between physics and mechanical/aerospace engineering.</p>
<p>USNews does not rank Engineering Mechanics separately but it is included in its “Engineering Science/Engineering Physics” specialty ranking as part of the Engineering Science side of that, although engineering mechanics is different from engineering physics and different from what some schools may call engineering science. It lists only 6 colleges for that specialty ranking but, because the specialty includes majors other than engineering mechanics, the list includes colleges that do not have ABET accredited engineering mechanics programs at the undergraduate level:</p>
<p>1 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
2 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL
3 Cornell University Ithaca, NY
4 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
5 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA
6 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University </p>
<p>The only two on the list with ABET accredited engineering mechanics programs at the undergraduate level are UIUC and VTech. The only colleges in the nation with ABET accredited engineering mechanics programs are those two and Johns Hopkins, UWisconsin, Lipscomb University TN, and Air Force Academy.</p>
<p>If you want to see a course listing requirement of a typical engineering mechanics major go here: <a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer; and if you want to compare that to what a mechanical engineering major takes, go here and see that the two are quite different <a href=“Course Explorer”>Course Explorer;
<p>Thanks for all the good replies, that helps clear things up a bit. I just wanted to know what kind of jobs would a person graduating from Engineering Mechanics be able to obtain?</p>
<p>A lot get stuff in the aerospace world I know.</p>
<p>The majority seem to go onto grad school. That is all I know from experience.</p>