Engineering at North Carolina A & T State University

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at North Carolina A & T State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

NC A&T is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and has a total student population of 12,753. Of the 2,126 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina A & T State University in 2021, 294 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.

NC A&T Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at NC A&T

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? NC A&T offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

NC A&T Engineering Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at NC A&T 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
Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools	71
Best Value Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	74
Most Popular Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools	101
Most Popular Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	140
Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	160
Best Engineering Schools	219

In 2021, 40 students received their master’s degree in engineering from NC A&T. This makes it the #194 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 30 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #102 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at NC A&T

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at North Carolina A & T State University.

NC A&T Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 30% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at NC A&T since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 52% 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 North Carolina A & T State University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	193
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	36
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	26

NC A&T Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 40 engineering students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from NC A&T, about 65% were men and 35% were women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 38% of degree recipients. That is 9% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from North Carolina A & T State University with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	6
International Students	19
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

NC A&T also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 30 students 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 North Carolina A & T State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	106
Industrial Engineering	50
Electrical Engineering	37
Civil Engineering	37
Biomedical Engineering	34
Chemical Engineering	25
Computer Engineering	23
Architectural Engineering	19
Other Engineering	19
Agricultural Engineering	11
Surveying Engineering	4

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Architecture & Related Services
• Mathematics & Statistics
• 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 NC, the home state for North Carolina A & T State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Software Applications Developers	30,580	$103,280
Industrial Engineers	9,160	$87,110
Civil Engineers	8,840	$86,270
Mechanical Engineers	8,000	$87,470
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760

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 Educatedblkman1914 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.