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Engineering-Related Fields at Virginia Tech

Engineering-Related Fields at Virginia Tech

What traits are you looking for in a engineering-related fields school? To help you decide if Virginia Tech is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's engineering-related fields program.

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and approximately 37,024 students attend the school each year.

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering-Related Fields

The engineering-related fields major at Virginia Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering-Related Fields. 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.

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

41% Women
47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 59% of engineering-related fields bachelor's degrees went to men and 41% went to women. The typical engineering-related fields bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% women. So female students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 9% more women than average.

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About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering-related fields at Virginia Tech are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering-related fields 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-related fields.

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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

If you plan to be a engineering-related fields 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 Virginia Tech. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Packaging Science 43

A degree in engineering-related fields 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
Industrial Engineers 4,620 $93,980
Engineers 4,190 $118,390
Architectural and Engineering Managers 4,030 $164,300
Engineering Technicians 3,580 $77,280
Industrial Production Managers 2,600 $120,070

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*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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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