Engineering at Florida Atlantic University

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

FAU is located in Boca Raton, Florida and approximately 30,805 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.

FAU Engineering Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Engineering (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at FAU

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? FAU offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

FAU Engineering Rankings

There were 9 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #177 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at FAU

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

FAU Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 70% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 30% went to women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 20% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	28
International Students	16
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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 Florida Atlantic University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Civil Engineering	17
Mechanical Engineering	17
Ocean Engineering	15
Biomedical Engineering	12
Computer Engineering	10
Electrical Engineering	6

Related Majors

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

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 FL, the home state for Florida Atlantic University.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Software Applications Developers	38,160	$95,610
Systems Software Developers	17,270	$102,590
Civil Engineers	16,750	$89,480
Cost Estimators	13,220	$62,370
Industrial Engineers	10,570	$77,410

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 Kmgcoolguy4 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.