Engineering at Stanford University

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

Stanford is located in Stanford, California and approximately 15,953 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,511 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in 2021, 240 of them were engineering majors.

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

Stanford Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Stanford

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? Stanford offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

Stanford Engineering Rankings

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

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 engineering major at Stanford 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
Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	3
Best Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools	4
Most Popular Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	170

In 2021, 617 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Stanford. This makes it the #20 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 262 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #3 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Stanford

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

Stanford Engineering Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 240 students earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Stanford. About 50% of these graduates were women and the other 50% were men. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Stanford since its program graduates 25% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% 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 Stanford University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	47
Black or African American	21
Hispanic or Latino	53
White	71
International Students	25
Other Races/Ethnicities	23

Stanford Engineering Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 617 students graduated with a master's degree in engineering from Stanford. About 63% were men and 37% were women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 32% of degree recipients. That is 4% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	106
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	48
White	176
International Students	239
Other Races/Ethnicities	37

Stanford also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 262 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Stanford University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	259
Mechanical Engineering	253
Civil Engineering	176
Other Engineering	113
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	93
Biomedical Engineering	77
Materials Engineering	73
Chemical Engineering	65
Environmental Engineering	8
Petroleum Engineering	4

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Engineering Technologies
• 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 CA, the home state for Stanford University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Software Applications Developers	148,550	$127,950
Systems Software Developers	88,910	$131,700
Civil Engineers	45,060	$109,680
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Electronics Engineers	29,210	$123,540

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 Pere Joan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.