Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology

What traits are you looking for in a engineering school? To help you decide if Illinois Institute of Technology is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's engineering program.

Illinois Tech is located in Chicago, Illinois and has a total student population of 6,325.

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

Illinois Tech Engineering Degrees Available

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

Illinois Tech Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Illinois 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 33 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #96 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Illinois Tech

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

Illinois Tech Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 69% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 31% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Illinois Tech since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 Illinois Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	49
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	47
White	118
International Students	35
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

Illinois Tech Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 30% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	27
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	80
International Students	184
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Engineering

The following engineering concentations are available at Illinois Institute of Technology. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Illinois Institute of Technology. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	157
Electrical Engineering	101
Chemical Engineering	73
Biomedical Engineering	52
Civil Engineering	44
Computer Engineering	44
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	31
Architectural Engineering	28
Other Engineering	22
Construction Engineering	21
Materials Engineering	12
Environmental Engineering	10
Operations Research	6
Engineering Physics	4
Manufacturing Engineering	1

Related Majors

• Mathematics & Statistics
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Agriculture & Agriculture Operations
• Physical 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 Illinois Institute of Technology.

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
• Image Credit: By Thomas Knapp under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.