To apply for admission to the graduate program in Mechanical Engineering, y
ou must submit an application, available through the Graduate Admissions Off
ice. The application deadline is January 15 of each year.
In a typical year, between 300 and 500 applications for graduate study in Me
chanical Engineering are received, and 20-30 offers of admission are made. A
dmissions decisions are made by the faculty, and are determined both by the
research opportunities in the applicant's area of interest, and the competit
iveness of the applicant's grades, class standing, GRE scores, and letters o
f recommendation. Most admitted students rank at least in the top 5% of thei
r undergraduate class, and have an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.5. The av
erage GRE scores for current students at Caltech are 651 Verbal, 763 Quantit
ative, 727 Analytical, and 761 Subject for students from American universiti
es. For foreign students, the average scores are 544 Verbal, 777 Quantitativ
e, 685 Analytical, 838 Subject, and 617 TOEFL.