Electrical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

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

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 13,519.

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

Carnegie Mellon Electrical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE
• Master’s Degree in EE

Carnegie Mellon Electrical Engineering Rankings

The ee major at Carnegie Mellon is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Electrical 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 43 students who received their doctoral degrees in ee, making the school the #11 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

EE Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

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

Carnegie Mellon Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of ee bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% went to women. The typical ee bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% 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 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its ee 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 ee.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	55
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	20
International Students	40
Other Races/Ethnicities	21

Carnegie Mellon Electrical Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 74% of ee master's degrees went to men and 26% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	52
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	22
International Students	340
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Concentrations Within Electrical Engineering

The following ee concentations are available at Carnegie Mellon University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Carnegie Mellon University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	548

Related Majors

• Manufacturing Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Engineering Mechanics
• Construction Engineering
• Operations Research

Careers That EE Grads May Go Into

A degree in ee 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
Electrical Engineers	8,870	$94,870
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,220	$150,400
Engineers	4,850	$96,550
Electronics Engineers	3,760	$98,130
Engineering Professors	2,950	$114,870

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.