Engineering at Brown University

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Brown University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Brown is located in Providence, Rhode Island and has a total student population of 9,948.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Brown Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering

Brown Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Brown is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 23 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #117 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Brown

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Brown University.

Brown Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 37% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Brown since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	51
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

Brown Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 52% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 48% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Brown University with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	27
International Students	100
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Brown University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	142
Biomedical Engineering	43
Engineering Physics	2

Related Majors

• Architecture & Related Services
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for RI, the home state for Brown University.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Software Applications Developers	1,840	$96,850
Mechanical Engineers	1,330	$94,520
Electronics Engineers	1,130	$119,290
Civil Engineers	810	$87,220
Computer Hardware Engineers	790	$104,400

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Ad Meskens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.