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Engineering-Related Fields at Virginia Tech

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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. Of the 7,699 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech in 2021, 43 of them were engineering-related fields majors.

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 following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering-related fields progam at Virginia Tech 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-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.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Focused Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools 39
Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools 50

The median salary of engineering-related fields students who receive their bachelor's degree at Virginia Tech is $62,198. This is 0% higher than $62,086, which is the national average for all engineering-related fields bachelor's degree recipients.

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

26% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 43 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in engineering-related fields from Virginia Tech in 2021, 74% were men and 26% were women.

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About 74% 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 3% 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 4
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 32
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Virginia Tech also has a doctoral program available in engineering-related fields. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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