Textile Engineering at North Carolina State University

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

NC State is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and has a total student population of 36,042. In 2021, 211 textile engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from NC State.

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

NC State Textile Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at NC State

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

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

NC State Textile Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks textile engineering programs across the country. The following shows how NC State 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 textile engineering major at NC State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Textile 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 Textile Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	1
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In 2021, 61 students received their master’s degree in textile engineering from NC State. This makes it the #1 most popular school for textile engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 28 students who received their doctoral degrees in textile engineering, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

How Much Do Textile Engineering Graduates from NC State Make?

The median salary of textile engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at NC State is $45,374. This is about the same as the yearly salary of alltextile engineering bachelor's degree recipients across the nation.

Textile Engineering Student Demographics at NC State

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

NC State Textile Engineering Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 211 students earned a bachelor's degree in textile engineering from NC State. About 80% of these graduates were women and the other 20% were men.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in textile engineering at NC State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its textile 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 State University with a bachelor's in textile engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	15
Hispanic or Latino	14
White	137
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	20

NC State Textile Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 61 students who graduated with a master’s in textile engineering from NC State in 2021, 23% were men and 77% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from North Carolina State University with a master's in textile engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	20
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

NC State also has a doctoral program available in textile engineering. In 2021, 28 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Engineering
• Construction Engineering
• Operations Research
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering

Careers That Textile Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in textile 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 State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,060	$140,980
Engineering Professors	1,400	$89,850

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 Haruhide000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.