Engineering at Dartmouth College

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

Dartmouth is located in Hanover, New Hampshire and approximately 6,292 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.

Dartmouth Engineering Degrees Available

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

Dartmouth Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Dartmouth 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 18 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #134 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Dartmouth

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

Dartmouth Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Dartmouth since its program graduates 27% more women than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Dartmouth 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 Dartmouth College with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	53
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Dartmouth Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 57% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 43% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	55
International Students	61
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

Concentrations Within Engineering

The following engineering concentations are available at Dartmouth College. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Dartmouth College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	153
Engineering Science	114
Biomedical Engineering	14
Engineering Physics	1

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• 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 NH, the home state for Dartmouth College.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
Software Applications Developers	6,540	$110,740
Mechanical Engineers	2,410	$97,270
Electrical Engineers	1,970	$107,790
Industrial Engineers	1,740	$91,530
Systems Software Developers	1,510	$126,790

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 Kane5187 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.