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Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

85% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

What traits are you looking for in a engineering school? To help you decide if The University of Texas at El Paso is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's engineering program.

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year.

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

UTEP Engineering Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
Master’s Degree in Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at UTEP

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UTEP offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

UTEP Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at UTEP 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.

There were 26 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #113 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at UTEP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at The University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP Engineering Bachelor’s Program

28% Women

85% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 72% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 28% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at UTEP since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 55% 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 The University of Texas at El Paso with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	314
White	10
International Students	42
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

UTEP Engineering Master’s Program

30% Women

66% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 30% went to women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 66% of degree recipients. That is 36% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	124
White	14
International Students	55
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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 The University of Texas at El Paso. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	266
Electrical Engineering	120
Civil Engineering	88
Industrial Engineering	84
Systems Engineering	38
Computer Engineering	33
Metallurgical Engineering	23
Environmental Engineering	13
Biomedical Engineering	12
Manufacturing Engineering	10
General Engineering	8
Construction Engineering	5
Materials Engineering	4
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	3

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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at El Paso.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Software Applications Developers	71,260	$108,760
Systems Software Developers	28,720	$110,740
Civil Engineers	24,460	$102,990
Mechanical Engineers	20,820	$105,570
Petroleum Engineers	19,260	$169,010

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 Adrian Garcia under License

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