Engineering at George Mason University

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

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 38,541 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 147 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.

GMU Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at GMU

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? GMU offers distance education options for engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

GMU Engineering Rankings

There were 17 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #137 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at GMU

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

GMU Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 147 students who graduated with a master’s in engineering from GMU in 2021, 71% were men and 29% were women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 24% of degree recipients. That is 6% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	17
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	13
White	53
International Students	53
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Concentrations Within Engineering

The following engineering concentations are available at George Mason University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from George Mason University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Computer Engineering	55
Civil Engineering	36
Electrical Engineering	34
Systems Engineering	23
Industrial Engineering	12
Biomedical Engineering	7
Construction Engineering	1
Operations Research	1

Related Majors

• Communications Technologies & Support
• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• 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 VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Software Applications Developers	38,110	$113,690
Systems Software Developers	27,800	$119,860
Civil Engineers	10,610	$94,780
Computer Network Architects	9,700	$123,050
Cost Estimators	9,220	$74,160

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 Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.