Engineering at Dordt University

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Dordt University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Dordt is located in Sioux Center, Iowa and has a total student population of 1,662. Of the 378 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Dordt University in 2021, 53 of them were engineering majors.

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

Dordt Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Dordt Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering progam at Dordt compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Dordt 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
Best Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	139
Best Value Engineering Schools	213

Engineering Student Demographics at Dordt

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

Dordt Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 53 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Dordt in 2020-2021, 94% were men and 6% were women.

About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Dordt 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 Dordt University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	39
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Dordt also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	23
Civil Engineering	13
Electrical Engineering	7
Engineering Science	5
Chemical Engineering	2
Biomedical Engineering	2
Computer Engineering	1

Related Majors

• Physical Sciences
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Engineering Technologies
• Computer & Information 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 IA, the home state for Dordt University.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Software Applications Developers	6,990	$88,570
Industrial Production Managers	3,490	$98,040
Mechanical Engineers	2,970	$80,530
Systems Software Developers	2,650	$91,920
Industrial Engineers	2,610	$82,770

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.