Engineering at Central Michigan University

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

Central Michigan is located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan and has a total student population of 17,311.

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

Central Michigan Engineering Degrees Available

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

Central Michigan Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Central Michigan 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.

Engineering Student Demographics at Central Michigan

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

Central Michigan Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 71% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 29% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Central Michigan since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Central Michigan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	39
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Central Michigan Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 0% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	10
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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 completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Central Michigan University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	65
Electrical Engineering	22
Computer Engineering	11
General Engineering	9

Related Majors

• Physical Sciences
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Engineering Technologies
• 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 MI, the home state for Central Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Mechanical Engineers	43,890	$91,100
Industrial Engineers	31,520	$89,330
Software Applications Developers	29,540	$92,260
Industrial Production Managers	13,110	$118,760
Architectural and Engineering Managers	10,460	$132,810

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 cjh1452000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.