Engineering at Vanderbilt University

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. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 203 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Vanderbilt.

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
• Doctorate 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 following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering progam at Vanderbilt 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 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	32
Best Value Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	165
Most Popular Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	178
Most Focused Engineering Schools	274

In 2021, 48 students received their master’s degree in engineering from Vanderbilt. This makes it the #179 most popular school for engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

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

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 203 students earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Vanderbilt. About 32% of these graduates were women and the other 68% were men. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 25% women. So female students are more repesented at Vanderbilt since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% 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	36
Black or African American	24
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	80
International Students	17
Other Races/Ethnicities	26

Vanderbilt Engineering Master’s Program

The engineering program at Vanderbilt awarded 48 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 73% of these degrees went to men with the other 27% going to women.

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	5
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	20
International Students	18
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Vanderbilt also has a doctoral program available in engineering. In 2021, 45 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 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

Related Majors

• Architecture & Related Services
• 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 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
• Image Credit: By Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.