Engineering at Fort Lewis College

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

FLC is located in Durango, Colorado and approximately 3,469 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from FLC.

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

FLC Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

FLC Engineering Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at FLC 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
Most Focused Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	303
Most Popular Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	397
Most Popular Engineering Schools	506

Engineering Student Demographics at FLC

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

FLC Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 24 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from FLC in 2020-2021, 79% were men and 21% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% 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 Fort Lewis College with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

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

Concentrations Within Engineering

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	21
Computer Engineering	3

Related Majors

• Computer & Information Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Physical Sciences
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• 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 CO, the home state for Fort Lewis College.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Software Applications Developers	30,400	$106,730
Systems Software Developers	11,170	$124,410
Civil Engineers	10,680	$93,560
Computer Network Architects	6,040	$115,300
Electronics Engineers	5,630	$105,560

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.