Program Payoff

Mechanical Engineering programs in Texas

11 schools in Texas teach this, at certificate or associate level. The Department of Education publishes earnings for none of them, so the figures below are what the occupation itself pays.

What this work pays in Texas

Mechanical Engineers in Texas earn a median of $112,410 a year across 22,080 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Texas
Cost Estimators$76,98020,760
Architectural and Engineering Managers$171,37019,030
Aerospace Engineers$130,2706,750
Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary$123,2804,080

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Austin Community College District Austin Associate's degree not published 3
Collin County Community College District McKinney Associate's degree not published 3
Del Mar College Corpus Christi Associate's degree not published 6
El Paso Community College El Paso Associate's degree not published 43
Lone Star College System The Woodlands Associate's degree not published 12
McLennan Community College Waco Associate's degree not published 6
Odessa College Odessa Associate's degree not published 5
Palo Alto College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
St Philip's College San Antonio Associate's degree not published 0
The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington Undergraduate certificate not published 10
The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Undergraduate certificate not published 0

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.