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Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

If you plan to study engineering, take a look at what University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and has a total student population of 52,679. Of the 9,305 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2021, 1,839 of them were engineering majors.

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

UIUC Engineering Degrees Available

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

UIUC Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at UIUC 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.

In 2021, 655 students received their master’s degree in engineering from UIUC. This makes it the #16 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 201 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Engineering Bachelor’s Program

23% Women
35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The engineering program at UIUC awarded 1,839 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 77% of these degrees went to men with the other 23% going to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in engineering.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 423
Black or African American 27
Hispanic or Latino 138
White 700
International Students 479
Other Races/Ethnicities 72

UIUC Engineering Master’s Program

27% Women
14% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 655 students who graduated with a master’s in engineering from UIUC in 2021, 73% were men and 27% were women.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 50
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 19
White 129
International Students 432
Other Races/Ethnicities 20

UIUC also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 201 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering 463
Computer Engineering 422
Civil Engineering 403
Mechanical Engineering 300
Chemical Engineering 181
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering 154
Agricultural Engineering 128
Industrial Engineering 110
Materials Engineering 109
Biomedical Engineering 96
Systems Engineering 77
Engineering Physics 74
Operations Research 46
Environmental Engineering 41
Nuclear Engineering 39
Engineering Mechanics 38
General Engineering 14

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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers 30,500 $96,610
Mechanical Engineers 17,320 $92,030
Systems Software Developers 17,130 $108,570
Civil Engineers 10,970 $94,570
Industrial Production Managers 10,620 $104,540

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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