Engineering at College of San Mateo

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

CSM is located in San Mateo, California and has a total student population of 7,494.

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

CSM Engineering Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at CSM

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? CSM offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree

CSM Engineering Rankings

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Engineering Student Demographics at CSM

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at College of San Mateo.

CSM Engineering Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 83% of engineering associate's degrees went to men and 17% went to women.

CSM does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in engineering graduates 22% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from College of San Mateo with a associate's in engineering.

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

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from College of San Mateo. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	12

Related Majors

• Engineering Technologies
• Architecture & Related Services
• Communications Technologies & Support
• 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 CA, the home state for College of San Mateo.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Software Applications Developers	148,550	$127,950
Systems Software Developers	88,910	$131,700
Civil Engineers	45,060	$109,680
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Electronics Engineers	29,210	$123,540

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.