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Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

40% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

Every engineering school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the engineering program at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus stacks up to those at other schools.

Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia and approximately 39,771 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.

Georgia Tech Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Georgia Tech

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Georgia Tech offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

Georgia Tech Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Georgia Tech 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 379 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Georgia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Georgia Tech Engineering Bachelor’s Program

36% Women

40% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Georgia Tech since its program graduates 10% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	417
Black or African American	117
Hispanic or Latino	169
White	899
International Students	260
Other Races/Ethnicities	102

Georgia Tech Engineering Master’s Program

28% Women

26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 72% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 28% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	205
Black or African American	45
Hispanic or Latino	65
White	407
International Students	561
Other Races/Ethnicities	37

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	794
Electrical Engineering	589
Industrial Engineering	430
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	338
Biomedical Engineering	323
Chemical Engineering	241
Civil Engineering	206
Computer Engineering	153
Materials Engineering	114
Environmental Engineering	76
Operations Research	50
Systems Engineering	38
Nuclear Engineering	32
Manufacturing Engineering	13
Robotics Engineering	8
Engineering Mechanics	2

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 GA, the home state for Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Software Applications Developers	30,440	$105,240
Systems Software Developers	12,910	$105,100
Civil Engineers	9,180	$81,110
Industrial Engineers	7,260	$86,220
Computer Network Architects	5,390	$114,240

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
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