Engineering Technologies at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 37,024.

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

Virginia Tech Engineering Technologies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Tech

Virginia Tech Engineering Technologies Rankings

The engineering tech major at Virginia Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering Technologies. 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.

Engineering Tech Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering tech majors at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 59% of engineering tech bachelor's degrees went to men and 41% went to women. The typical engineering tech bachelor's degree program is made up of only 17% women. So female students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 24% more women than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering tech at Virginia Tech are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering tech bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in engineering tech.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Engineering Technologies

The following engineering tech concentations are available at Virginia Tech. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Virginia Tech. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Engineering-Related Fields	43

Related Majors

• Architecture & Related Services
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Agriculture & Agriculture Operations

Careers That Engineering Tech Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering tech can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Software Applications Developers	38,110	$113,690
Systems Software Developers	27,800	$119,860
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics	19,650	$47,730
Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers	12,690	$50,210
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	9,930	$41,500

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 Eric T Gunther under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.