Agricultural Engineering at University of Maryland - College Park

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

UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and approximately 40,709 students attend the school each year. Of the 8,838 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Maryland - College Park in 2021, 125 of them were agricultural engineering majors.

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

UMCP Agricultural Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in AE
• Doctorate Degree in AE

UMCP Agricultural Engineering Rankings

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

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 AE major at UMCP is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Agricultural 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 Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	7

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in AE from UMCP. This is the #25 most popular school for AE master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do AE Graduates from UMCP Make?

The median salary of AE students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMCP is $60,946. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 3% higher than the national average of $59,306 for all AE bachelor's degree recipients.

AE Student Demographics at UMCP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the AE majors at University of Maryland - College Park.

UMCP Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 125 AE students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UMCP, about 45% were men and 55% were women. The typical AE bachelor's degree program is made up of only 40% women. So female students are more repesented at UMCP since its program graduates 15% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its AE bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland - College Park with a bachelor's in AE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	31
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	62
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

UMCP also has a doctoral program available in AE. In 2021, 12 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Systems Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Other Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Chemical Engineering

Careers That AE Grads May Go Into

A degree in AE can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for University of Maryland - College Park.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Architectural and Engineering Managers	5,010	$145,470
Engineering Professors	890	$117,160

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 Bgervais under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.