Metallurgical Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

If you are interested in studying metallurgical 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 approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,981 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2021, 23 of them were metallurgical engineering majors.

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

UTEP Metallurgical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering

UTEP Metallurgical Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks metallurgical 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 metallurgical engineering major at UTEP is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Metallurgical 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 Metallurgical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	9

How Much Do Metallurgical Engineering Graduates from UTEP Make?

The median salary of metallurgical engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at UTEP is $61,588. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $68,679 for all metallurgical engineering students.

Metallurgical Engineering Student Demographics at UTEP

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

UTEP Metallurgical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 23 metallurgical engineering majors earned their bachelor's degree from UTEP. Of these graduates, 61% were men and 39% were women. The typical metallurgical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 35% women. So female students are more repesented at UTEP since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 26% more racial-ethnic minorities in its metallurgical 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 metallurgical engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	3
International Students	9
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

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

Careers That Metallurgical Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in metallurgical 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
Engineering Professors	3,890	$123,200
Materials Engineers	2,400	$99,790

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.