General Engineering at East Carolina University

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

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and has a total student population of 28,798. Of the 5,233 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University in 2021, 102 of them were general engineering majors.

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

ECU General Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

ECU General Engineering Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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
	65
	143

Earnings of ECU Engineering Graduates

The median salary of engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at ECU is $61,056. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $61,282 for all engineering students.

Engineering Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 80% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 20% went to women.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at ECU 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 East Carolina University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	70
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

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

Related Majors

• Biomedical Engineering
• Computer Engineering

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 NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,060	$140,980
Engineers	1,540	$83,900
Engineering Professors	1,400	$89,850

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.