Engineering at Gannon University

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

Gannon is located in Erie, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 4,251.

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

Gannon Engineering Degrees Available

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

Gannon Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Gannon 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.

Engineering Student Demographics at Gannon

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

Gannon Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 47% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Gannon since its program graduates 21% more women than average.

About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Gannon 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 Gannon 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	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Gannon Engineering Master’s Program

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

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	12
International Students	40
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	27
Biomedical Engineering	20
Electrical Engineering	20
Computer Engineering	7
Environmental Engineering	7
Industrial Engineering	2

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Engineering Technologies
• 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 PA, the home state for Gannon University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers	28,260	$96,370
Mechanical Engineers	16,590	$85,740
Civil Engineers	12,530	$88,740
Industrial Engineers	9,280	$86,080
Electrical Engineers	8,870	$94,870

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.