Agricultural Engineering at Virginia Tech

If you plan to study agricultural engineering, 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 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 Agricultural Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Virginia Tech Agricultural Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in AE
• Master’s Degree in AE

Virginia Tech Agricultural Engineering Rankings

The ae major at Virginia Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Agricultural 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 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in ae, making the school the #8 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

AE Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

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

Virginia Tech Agricultural Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 39% of ae bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical ae bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% women. So female students are more repesented at Virginia Tech since its program graduates 19% more women than average.

About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in ae 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 2% more racial-ethnic minorities in its ae 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 ae.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	38
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Virginia Tech Agricultural Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of ae master's degrees went to men and 57% went to women.

Of the students who received a ae master's degree from Virginia Tech, 71% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Careers That AE Grads May Go Into

A degree in ae 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
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,030	$164,300

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

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