General Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

If you plan to study general engineering, take a look at what Carnegie Mellon University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

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 General Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Carnegie Mellon General Engineering Degrees Available

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

Carnegie Mellon General Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Carnegie Mellon is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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 11 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #15 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 General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 55% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 45% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 24% women. So female students are more repesented at Carnegie Mellon since its program graduates 21% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 9% 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	3
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	10
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Carnegie Mellon General Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 56% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 44% 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 engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	8
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within General Engineering

The following engineering 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
General Engineering	35

Related Majors

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

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
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,220	$150,400
Engineers	4,850	$96,550
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.