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Engineering at Cornell University

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

Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and approximately 23,620 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 600 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell.

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

Cornell Engineering Degrees Available

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

Cornell Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering programs across the country. The following shows how Cornell performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at Cornell 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.

Ranking Type Rank
47
Best Value Engineering Master’s Degree Schools 59
Most Focused Engineering Schools 76

In 2021, 712 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Cornell. This makes it the #14 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 118 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #23 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Cornell

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

Cornell Engineering Bachelor’s Program

51% Women
49% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 600 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from Cornell. About 49% were men and 51% were women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Cornell since its program graduates 26% more women than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% 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 Cornell University with a bachelor's in engineering.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 150
Black or African American 27
Hispanic or Latino 74
White 210
International Students 63
Other Races/Ethnicities 76

Cornell Engineering Master’s Program

37% Women
22% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 712 students earned a master's degree in engineering from Cornell. About 37% of these graduates were women and the other 63% were men.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 84
Black or African American 19
Hispanic or Latino 42
White 163
International Students 374
Other Races/Ethnicities 30

Cornell also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 118 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 Cornell University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering 264
Operations Research 231
Mechanical Engineering 214
Biomedical Engineering 146
Chemical Engineering 131
Systems Engineering 93
Materials Engineering 81
Civil Engineering 71
Engineering Physics 62
Agricultural Engineering 56
Environmental Engineering 37
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 25
General Engineering 13
Engineering Mechanics 6

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 Cornell University.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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