Engineering at University of Iowa

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

Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa and has a total student population of 30,318. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 457 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Iowa.

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

Iowa Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Iowa

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

• Master’s Degree

Iowa Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering progam at Iowa compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering major at Iowa 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	74

In 2021, 70 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Iowa. This makes it the #152 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 39 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #90 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Iowa

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

Iowa Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 30% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Iowa since its program graduates 5% more women than average.

About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Iowa 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 Iowa with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	23
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	31
White	344
International Students	26
Other Races/Ethnicities	25

Iowa Engineering Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 70 engineering majors earned their master's degree from Iowa. Of these graduates, 76% were men and 24% were women.

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from Iowa, 54% 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 Iowa with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	38
International Students	19
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Iowa also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 39 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Iowa. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Biomedical Engineering	123
Mechanical Engineering	121
Civil Engineering	72
Industrial Engineering	71
Computer Engineering	71
Chemical Engineering	51
Electrical Engineering	36
Environmental Engineering	20
General Engineering	11
Other Engineering	1

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Physical Sciences
• Computer & Information Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences

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 IA, the home state for University of Iowa.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Software Applications Developers	6,990	$88,570
Industrial Production Managers	3,490	$98,040
Mechanical Engineers	2,970	$80,530
Systems Software Developers	2,650	$91,920
Industrial Engineers	2,610	$82,770

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 KMSatoh202 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.