General Civil Engineering at Vanderbilt University

If you are interested in studying general civil 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 General Civil Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Vanderbilt General Civil Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in General Civil Engineering
• Master’s Degree in General Civil Engineering

Vanderbilt General Civil Engineering Rankings

The general civil engineering major at Vanderbilt is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General Civil 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 4 students who received their doctoral degrees in general civil engineering, making the school the #81 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

General Civil Engineering Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt General Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 45% of general civil engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 55% went to women. The typical general civil engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% women. So female students are more repesented at Vanderbilt since its program graduates 25% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% more racial-ethnic minorities in its general civil 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 general civil engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Vanderbilt General Civil Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of general civil engineering master's degrees went to men and 27% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Vanderbilt University with a master's in general civil engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

Careers That General Civil Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in general civil 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
Civil Engineers	3,490	$93,810
Architectural and Engineering Managers	3,300	$129,320
Engineering Professors	610	$107,480

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.