Engineering at North Carolina State University

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

NC State is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and approximately 36,042 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 800 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.

NC State Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at NC State

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

• Master’s Degree

NC State Engineering Rankings

There were 214 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #7 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at NC State

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

NC State Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 800 students who earned a master's degree in Engineering from NC State in 2020-2021, 74% were men and 26% were women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	25
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	265
International Students	443
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 North Carolina State University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	206
Computer Engineering	142
Mechanical Engineering	117
Textile Engineering	93
Industrial Engineering	91
Civil Engineering	86
Chemical Engineering	77
Manufacturing Engineering	38
Materials Engineering	29
Nuclear Engineering	29
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	25
Operations Research	24
Biomedical Engineering	18
Environmental Engineering	15
Agricultural Engineering	13
General Engineering	12
Other Engineering	5

Related Majors

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

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 NC, the home state for North Carolina State University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Software Applications Developers	30,580	$103,280
Industrial Engineers	9,160	$87,110
Civil Engineers	8,840	$86,270
Mechanical Engineers	8,000	$87,470
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760

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 Haruhide000 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.