General Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

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

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and has a total student population of 24,879. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from UTEP.

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.

UTEP General Engineering Degrees Available

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

UTEP General Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering programs across the country. The following shows how UTEP performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at UTEP 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	77
Most Focused General Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	93
Most Popular General Engineering Schools	314

In 2021, 1 student received their master’s degree in engineering from UTEP. This is the #86 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

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 General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 students earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from UTEP. About 29% of these graduates were women and the other 71% were men. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at UTEP since its program graduates 6% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 53% 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	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UTEP General Engineering Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 1 student earned a master's degree in engineering from UTEP.

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	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Materials Engineering
• Construction Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

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
Architectural and Engineering Managers	12,920	$167,280
Engineers	10,710	$113,370
Engineering Professors	3,890	$123,200

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.