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Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

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

Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 13,519. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 996 students received their master's degree in engineering.

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

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Engineering
  • Doctorate Degree in Engineering

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Rankings

There were 144 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #18 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Carnegie Mellon

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Carnegie Mellon Engineering Master’s Program

31% Women
13% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 69% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 31% went to women.

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The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a master's in engineering.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 75
Black or African American 24
Hispanic or Latino 21
White 93
International Students 739
Other Races/Ethnicities 44

Concentrations Within Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Carnegie Mellon University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering 384
Mechanical Engineering 177
Computer Engineering 144
Robotics Engineering 123
Civil Engineering 94
Chemical Engineering 76
Biomedical Engineering 41
Other Engineering 37
Engineering Science 19
Biological Engineering 13
General Engineering 13
Operations Research 8
Construction Engineering 4
Engineering Mechanics 3
Environmental Engineering 3
Manufacturing Engineering 1

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 PA, the home state for Carnegie Mellon University.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Software Applications Developers 28,260 $96,370
Mechanical Engineers 16,590 $85,740
Civil Engineers 12,530 $88,740
Industrial Engineers 9,280 $86,080
Electrical Engineers 8,870 $94,870

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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