Engineering at William Rainey Harper College

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

Harper College is located in Palatine, Illinois and approximately 12,199 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.

Harper College Engineering Degrees Available

• Associate’s Degree in Engineering

Harper College Engineering Rankings

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Engineering Student Demographics at Harper College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at William Rainey Harper College.

Harper College Engineering Associate’s Program

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

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in engineering at Harper College are white. Around 51% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree. Harper College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in engineering graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from William Rainey Harper College with a associate's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	18
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 William Rainey Harper College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	35

Related Majors

• Computer & Information Sciences
• Engineering Technologies

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 IL, the home state for William Rainey Harper College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers	30,500	$96,610
Mechanical Engineers	17,320	$92,030
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Civil Engineers	10,970	$94,570
Industrial Production Managers	10,620	$104,540

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.