Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

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

Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and approximately 28,890 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 908 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.

Johns Hopkins Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at Johns Hopkins

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

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

• Master’s Degree

Johns Hopkins Engineering Rankings

There were 92 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #34 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Johns Hopkins

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

Johns Hopkins Engineering Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 908 engineering majors earned their master's degree from Johns Hopkins. Of these graduates, 71% were men and 29% were women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 27% of degree recipients. That is 9% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	112
Black or African American	43
Hispanic or Latino	61
White	396
International Students	231
Other Races/Ethnicities	65

Concentrations Within Engineering

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

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Systems Engineering	206
Electrical Engineering	197
Biomedical Engineering	176
Mechanical Engineering	145
Chemical Engineering	67
Environmental Engineering	60
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	52
Robotics Engineering	42
Civil Engineering	33
Materials Engineering	29
General Engineering	4

Related Majors

• Communications Technologies & Support
• Engineering Technologies
• Physical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Computer & Information 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 MD, the home state for Johns Hopkins University.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Systems Software Developers	15,430	$119,860
Software Applications Developers	12,780	$108,850
Civil Engineers	8,080	$86,110
Mechanical Engineers	5,670	$109,960
Computer Network Architects	5,340	$121,720

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 Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.