Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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

RPI is located in Troy, New York and has a total student population of 7,501. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 157 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.

RPI Engineering Degrees Available

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

RPI Engineering Rankings

There were 57 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #64 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at RPI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

RPI Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 73% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 27% went to women.

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from RPI, 53% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 24% of degree recipients. That is 7% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	13
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	83
International Students	34
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

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 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	50
Electrical Engineering	35
Civil Engineering	26
Biomedical Engineering	25
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	24
Chemical Engineering	23
Materials Engineering	12
Systems Engineering	6
Environmental Engineering	5
Nuclear Engineering	5
Industrial Engineering	3

Related Majors

• Engineering Technologies
• Architecture & Related Services
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Physical Sciences
• 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 NY, the home state for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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 UpstateNYer under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.