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Engineering at University of Delaware

23% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

Every engineering school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the engineering program at University of Delaware stacks up to those at other schools.

UD is located in Newark, Delaware and has a total student population of 23,613.

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

UD Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at UD

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

Master’s Degree

UD Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at UD 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 49 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #71 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at UD

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

UD Engineering Bachelor’s Program

31% Women

23% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 69% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 31% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at UD since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at UD are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	36
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	29
White	282
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	32

UD Engineering Master’s Program

30% Women

16% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

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

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from UD, 56% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	63
International Students	29
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Concentrations Within Engineering

The following engineering concentations are available at University of Delaware. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Delaware. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	135
Chemical Engineering	108
Civil Engineering	89
Computer Engineering	79
Biomedical Engineering	60
Electrical Engineering	31
Environmental Engineering	23
Construction Engineering	19
Robotics Engineering	3
Ocean Engineering	1

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 DE, the home state for University of Delaware.

Occupation	Jobs in DE	Average Salary in DE
Software Applications Developers	4,790	$106,730
Cost Estimators	970	$68,690
Operations Research Analysts	960	$86,690
Civil Engineers	840	$91,410
Mechanical Engineers	670	$106,220

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 Ottawa80 at English Wikipedia under License

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