Engineering at Hampton University

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

Hampton is located in Hampton, Virginia and has a total student population of 3,516. In 2021, 14 engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from Hampton.

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

Hampton Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Hampton Engineering Rankings

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

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 Hampton 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 Popular Engineering Schools	620

Engineering Student Demographics at Hampton

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

Hampton Engineering Bachelor’s Program

The engineering program at Hampton awarded 14 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 71% of these degrees went to men with the other 29% going to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Hampton since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 72% 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 Hampton University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Hampton University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	6
Chemical Engineering	5
Computer Engineering	3

Related Majors

• Mathematics & Statistics
• Physical Sciences
• Architecture & Related Services
• Computer & Information Sciences
• 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 VA, the home state for Hampton University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Software Applications Developers	38,110	$113,690
Systems Software Developers	27,800	$119,860
Civil Engineers	10,610	$94,780
Computer Network Architects	9,700	$123,050
Cost Estimators	9,220	$74,160

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.