Engineering-Related Fields at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

If you plan to study engineering-related fields, take a look at what Worcester Polytechnic Institute has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

WPI is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and approximately 6,920 students attend the school each year.

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.

WPI Engineering-Related Fields Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering-Related Fields

WPI Engineering-Related Fields Rankings

The engineering-related fields major at WPI 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.

Engineering-Related Fields Student Demographics at WPI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering-related fields majors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

WPI Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of engineering-related fields bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% went to women. The typical engineering-related fields bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% women. So female students are more repesented at WPI since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering-related fields at WPI are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 13% 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 Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's in engineering-related fields.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	13
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Engineering-Related Fields

If you plan to be a engineering-related fields major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

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Careers That Engineering-Related Fields Grads May Go Into

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 MA, the home state for Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Industrial Engineers	10,720	$102,210
Architectural and Engineering Managers	8,190	$156,250
Industrial Production Managers	5,590	$126,630
Engineers	3,090	$109,220
Industrial Engineering Technicians	2,810	$59,600

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 Runningonbrains under License

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