General Engineering at Smith College

If you are interested in studying general engineering, you may want to check out the program at Smith College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Smith is located in Northampton, Massachusetts and approximately 2,504 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 11 engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from Smith.

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

Smith General Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Smith General Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering progam at Smith 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 Smith is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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 Popular General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	56
Best Value General Engineering Schools	173

How Much Do Engineering Graduates from Smith Make?

The median salary of engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Smith is $62,496. This is 2% higher than $61,282, which is the national average for all engineering bachelor's degree recipients.

Engineering Student Demographics at Smith

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

Smith General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at Smith since its program graduates 77% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% 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 Smith College with a bachelor's in engineering.

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

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

Related Majors

• Engineering Science

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 MA, the home state for Smith College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	8,190	$156,250
Engineers	3,090	$109,220
Engineering Professors	1,880	$135,140

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 Redjar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.