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Engineering at Whitman College

Engineering at Whitman College

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Whitman College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Whitman is located in Walla Walla, Washington and approximately 1,360 students attend the school each year.

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

Whitman Engineering Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Whitman Engineering Rankings

The engineering major at Whitman is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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.

Engineering Student Demographics at Whitman

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

Whitman Engineering Bachelor’s Program

20% Women
20% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 80% of engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 20% went to women.

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About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering at Whitman are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Whitman College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering 2

Careers That Engineering Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation Jobs in WA Average Salary in WA
Software Applications Developers 53,860 $131,790
Systems Software Developers 16,130 $121,250
Civil Engineers 11,440 $93,120
Mechanical Engineers 7,750 $96,860
Industrial Engineers 6,740 $106,980

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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