Engineering at Oberlin College

If you plan to study engineering, take a look at what Oberlin College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Oberlin is located in Oberlin, Ohio and approximately 2,658 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Oberlin.

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

Oberlin Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Oberlin Engineering Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at Oberlin 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
Most Focused Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	495
Most Popular Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	512
Most Popular Engineering Schools	806

Engineering Student Demographics at Oberlin

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Oberlin College.

Oberlin Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 6 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Oberlin in 2020-2021, 83% were men and 17% were women.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Oberlin 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 Oberlin College with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Concentrations Within Engineering

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Other Engineering	6

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Computer & Information Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• 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 OH, the home state for Oberlin College.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Software Applications Developers	35,100	$95,090
Industrial Engineers	15,440	$84,060
Mechanical Engineers	15,300	$81,020
Industrial Production Managers	11,380	$109,190
Cost Estimators	10,200	$64,700

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 Matthew Trump under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.