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Engineering at Vanderbilt University

38% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Vanderbilt University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 students attend the school each year.

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

Vanderbilt Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Vanderbilt

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Vanderbilt does offer online courses in engineering for the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

Vanderbilt Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Vanderbilt 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 45 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #76 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt Engineering Bachelor’s Program

42% Women

38% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 42% went to women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 26% women. So female students are more repesented at Vanderbilt since its program graduates 16% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	27
Black or African American	23
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	113
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	29

Vanderbilt Engineering Master’s Program

25% Women

21% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 25% went to women.

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from Vanderbilt, 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 Vanderbilt University with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	40
International Students	15
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 Vanderbilt University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Biomedical Engineering	67
Mechanical Engineering	66
Engineering Science	38
Electrical Engineering	37
Chemical Engineering	37
Civil Engineering	25
Computer Engineering	12
General Engineering	10
Environmental Engineering	3
Other 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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Software Applications Developers	5,870	$87,630
Industrial Engineers	5,390	$84,070
Systems Software Developers	4,940	$92,700
Industrial Production Managers	4,360	$101,670
Engineers	4,250	$82,030

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
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