Engineering at Murray State University

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

Murray State is located in Murray, Kentucky and approximately 9,449 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,603 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Murray State University in 2021, 29 of them were engineering majors.

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

Murray State Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Murray State Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Murray State 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.

Engineering Student Demographics at Murray State

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

Murray State Engineering Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 29 students earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Murray State. About 28% of these graduates were women and the other 72% were men. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Murray State since its program graduates 3% more women than average.

About 90% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Murray State 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 Murray State University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	26
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

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 Murray State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Engineering Physics	29

Related Majors

• Communications Technologies & Support
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Physical 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 KY, the home state for Murray State University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Software Applications Developers	5,700	$86,300
Industrial Engineers	5,410	$79,170
Mechanical Engineers	4,000	$84,380
Industrial Production Managers	3,800	$97,340
Civil Engineers	3,380	$82,840

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.