Engineering Physics at Westmont College

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

Westmont is located in Santa Barbara, California and approximately 1,226 students attend the school each year. Of the 341 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Westmont College in 2021, 7 of them were engineering physics majors.

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

Westmont Engineering Physics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Physics

Westmont Engineering Physics Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering physics progam at Westmont compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering physics major at Westmont is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering Physics. 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 Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	4
Most Focused Engineering Physics Schools	6
Most Popular Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Degree Schools	21
Most Popular Engineering Physics Schools	30

Engineering Physics Student Demographics at Westmont

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering physics majors at Westmont College.

Westmont Engineering Physics Bachelor’s Program

Of the 7 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in engineering physics from Westmont in 2021, 57% were men and 43% were women. The typical engineering physics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 21% women. So female students are more repesented at Westmont since its program graduates 22% more women than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering physics at Westmont are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering physics bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Westmont also has a doctoral program available in engineering physics. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

Careers That Engineering Physics Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering physics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for Westmont College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Engineers	20,600	$107,700
Natural Sciences Managers	7,870	$168,790
Physicists	3,200	$115,970
Engineering Professors	2,400	$129,790

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 Richard O’Reilly under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.