Bachelor's · Gainesville, Florida
Is Mechanical Engineering at University of Florida worth it?
High confidence High confidence: 100+ graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 0.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $85,432
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $104,311
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $14,624
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $25k (likely $25k – $29k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $68k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in FL
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.7 years (likely 0.6–0.8)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $492k (likely $424k – $559k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $1.29M (likely $1.11M – $1.49M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 92%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Borrowers making progress / in default, 2 years in
- not reported / ≤ 10%
- NSLDS AY2016-17, AY2017-18 pooled cohorts measured in 2018-19, 2019-20
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- Advanced/Graduate Dentistry and Oral Sciences (Master's)$207,455
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- Business Administration, Management and Operations (First professional)$193,468
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- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies (Master's)$142,291
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- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (First professional)$136,765
Mechanical Engineering at other schools in Florida
- University of Florida-Online$97,113
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach$96,331
- Florida International University$93,494
- Florida Institute of Technology$92,753
- University of Central Florida$89,663
- Florida State University$89,622
- Florida Atlantic University$89,583
- University of South Florida$88,249
- University of Miami$86,156
- University of North Florida$85,995