Drafting & Design Engineering Technology at Sam Houston State University

If you are interested in studying drafting & design engineering technology, you may want to check out the program at Sam Houston State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and has a total student population of 21,912.

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

SHSU Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Design Engineering Tech

SHSU Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Rankings

The design engineering tech major at SHSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Drafting & Design Engineering Technology. 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.

Design Engineering Tech Student Demographics at SHSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the design engineering tech majors at Sam Houston State University.

SHSU Drafting & Design Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of design engineering tech bachelor's degrees went to men and 30% went to women. The typical design engineering tech bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% women. So female students are more repesented at SHSU since its program graduates 1% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% more racial-ethnic minorities in its design engineering tech bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Sam Houston State University with a bachelor's in design engineering tech.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	8
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Drafting & Design Engineering Technology

If you plan to be a design engineering tech 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 Sam Houston State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Drafting & Design Technology	9

Related Majors

• Mechanical Engineering Technology
• General Engineering Technology
• Computer Engineering Technology
• Construction Engineering Technology

Careers That Design Engineering Tech Grads May Go Into

A degree in design engineering tech can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for Sam Houston State University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Architectural and Civil Drafters	11,200	$56,120
Mechanical Drafters	4,830	$61,770
Electrical and Electronics Drafters	3,080	$60,760
Drafters	1,810	$48,450

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 Bigguill under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.