Engineering at Cornell University

What traits are you looking for in a engineering school? To help you decide if Cornell University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's engineering program.

Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and approximately 23,620 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 712 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.

Cornell Engineering Degrees Available

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

Cornell Engineering Rankings

There were 118 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #23 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Cornell

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

Cornell Engineering Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 712 engineering majors earned their master's degree from Cornell. Of these graduates, 63% were men and 37% were women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 22% of degree recipients. That is 5% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	84
Black or African American	19
Hispanic or Latino	42
White	163
International Students	374
Other Races/Ethnicities	30

Concentrations Within Engineering

Engineering majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Cornell University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	170
Operations Research	147
Biomedical Engineering	96
Mechanical Engineering	93
Systems Engineering	93
Chemical Engineering	62
Materials Engineering	53
Civil Engineering	34
Engineering Physics	30
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	25
Agricultural Engineering	21
Engineering Mechanics	6

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Engineering Technologies
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Architecture & Related Services

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 NY, the home state for Cornell University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Software Applications Developers	52,640	$116,830
Systems Software Developers	19,690	$115,120
Civil Engineers	16,790	$102,250
Industrial Engineers	12,030	$94,700
Mechanical Engineers	11,280	$91,820

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 Notyourbroom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.