Manufacturing Engineering at Northwestern University

Every manufacturing engineering school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the manufacturing engineering program at Northwestern University stacks up to those at other schools.

Northwestern is located in Evanston, Illinois and has a total student population of 22,603.

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

Northwestern Manufacturing Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Manufacturing Engineering

Northwestern Manufacturing Engineering Rankings

The manufacturing engineering major at Northwestern is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Manufacturing 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.

Manufacturing Engineering Student Demographics at Northwestern

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

Northwestern Manufacturing Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of manufacturing engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical manufacturing engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% women. So female students are more repesented at Northwestern since its program graduates 45% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities in its manufacturing engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's in manufacturing engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	6
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	5
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Manufacturing Engineering

Manufacturing Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Northwestern University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Manufacturing Engineering	25

Related Majors

• Engineering Mechanics
• General Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Environmental Engineering
• Chemical Engineering

Careers That Manufacturing Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in manufacturing 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 Northwestern University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Architectural and Engineering Managers	9,760	$136,270
Industrial Engineers	9,760	$88,850
Cost Estimators	5,600	$66,480
Engineers	4,000	$87,220
Engineering Professors	1,330	$114,010

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 Madcoverboy at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.