General Engineering at Whitman College

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

Whitman is located in Walla Walla, Washington and approximately 1,360 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 students received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Whitman.

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

Whitman General Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Whitman General Engineering Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering programs across the country. The following shows how Whitman performed in these rankings.

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

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular General Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	117
Most Focused General Engineering Schools	322
Most Popular General Engineering Schools	499

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 General Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 engineering majors earned their bachelor's degree from Whitman. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 23% women. So female students are more repesented at Whitman since its program graduates 77% more women than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

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
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,290	$154,620
Engineers	3,160	$104,890
Engineering Professors	800	$101,880

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 Adamsofen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.