General Engineering at Swarthmore College

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

Swarthmore is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,437. In 2021, 23 engineering majors received their bachelor's degree from Swarthmore.

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.

Swarthmore General Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Swarthmore General Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering progam at Swarthmore 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 Swarthmore 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
Best General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
	22
Best General Engineering Schools	24
Most Focused General Engineering Schools	28
Most Popular General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32
Best Value General Engineering Schools	134

Earnings of Swarthmore Engineering Graduates

The median salary of engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Swarthmore is $68,963. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 13% higher than the national average of $61,282 for all engineering bachelor's degree recipients.

Engineering Student Demographics at Swarthmore

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

Swarthmore General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

The engineering program at Swarthmore awarded 23 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 61% of these degrees went to men with the other 39% going to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at Swarthmore since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 2% 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 Swarthmore College with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	9
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

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 PA, the home state for Swarthmore College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	7,220	$150,400
Engineers	4,850	$96,550
Engineering Professors	2,950	$114,870

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 Nelson Pavlosky under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.