Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

What traits are you looking for in a engineering school? To help you decide if Carnegie Mellon University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's engineering program.

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and approximately 13,519 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,953 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2021, 452 of them were engineering majors.

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

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Degrees Available

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

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering progam at Carnegie Mellon compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at Carnegie Mellon 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	8
Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	12
Most Focused Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools	113

In 2021, 996 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Carnegie Mellon. This makes it the #6 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 144 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #18 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

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

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 452 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2020-2021, 57% were men and 43% were women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Carnegie Mellon since its program graduates 18% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% 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 Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	138
Black or African American	30
Hispanic or Latino	60
White	138
International Students	46
Other Races/Ethnicities	40

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 996 engineering students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Carnegie Mellon, about 69% were men and 31% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	75
Black or African American	24
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	93
International Students	739
Other Races/Ethnicities	44

Carnegie Mellon also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 144 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Carnegie Mellon University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	548
Mechanical Engineering	298
Computer Engineering	144
Robotics Engineering	133
Chemical Engineering	126
Civil Engineering	125
Biomedical Engineering	95
Other Engineering	37
General Engineering	35
Engineering Science	19
Biological Engineering	13
Operations Research	8
Construction Engineering	4
Engineering Mechanics	3
Environmental Engineering	3
Manufacturing Engineering	1

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Architecture & Related Services
• Engineering Technologies
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Physical 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 PA, the home state for Carnegie Mellon University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Mechanical Engineers	16,590	$85,740
Civil Engineers	12,530	$88,740
Industrial Engineers	9,280	$86,080
Electrical Engineers	8,870	$94,870

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 Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.