General Engineering at Hope College

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

Hope is located in Holland, Michigan and approximately 3,061 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 53 engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from Hope.

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

Hope General Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Hope General Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering programs across the country. The following shows how Hope 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 Hope is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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 General Engineering Schools	19
Best Value General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	24
	57
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Earnings of Hope Engineering Graduates

The median salary of engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Hope is $62,322. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 2% higher than the national average of $61,282 for all engineering bachelor's degree recipients.

Engineering Student Demographics at Hope

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

Hope General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 53 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from Hope. About 60% were men and 40% were women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at Hope since its program graduates 17% more women than average.

About 89% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Hope 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 Hope College with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	47
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

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 MI, the home state for Hope College.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Architectural and Engineering Managers	10,460	$132,810
Engineering Professors	1,640	$106,740

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
• Image Credit: By Trenner1945 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.