Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York

Every engineering school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the engineering program at Columbia University in the City of New York stacks up to those at other schools.

Columbia is located in New York, New York and approximately 30,135 students attend the school each year.

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

Columbia Engineering Degrees Available

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

Columbia Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Columbia 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.

There were 87 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #35 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Columbia

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Columbia Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Columbia since its program graduates 17% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% 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 Columbia University in the City of New York with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	57
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	50
White	78
International Students	85
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

Columbia Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 36% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Columbia University in the City of New York with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	116
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	28
White	148
International Students	1,091
Other Races/Ethnicities	41

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 Columbia University in the City of New York. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Operations Research	399
Electrical Engineering	232
Mechanical Engineering	205
Biomedical Engineering	166
Civil Engineering	147
Industrial Engineering	123
Chemical Engineering	114
Engineering Physics	41
Environmental Engineering	41
Computer Engineering	40

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Architecture & Related Services
• Physical Sciences
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics

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 NY, the home state for Columbia University in the City of New York.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Software Applications Developers	52,640	$116,830
Systems Software Developers	19,690	$115,120
Civil Engineers	16,790	$102,250
Industrial Engineers	12,030	$94,700
Mechanical Engineers	11,280	$91,820

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 Nandaro under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.