Systems Engineering at Southern Methodist University

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

SMU is located in Dallas, Texas and approximately 12,373 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 43 students received their master's degree in systems engineering.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Systems Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

SMU Systems Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at SMU

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.

SMU does offer online education options in systems engineering for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

SMU Systems Engineering Rankings

There were 0 student who received their doctoral degrees in systems engineering, making the school the #24 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Systems Engineering Student Demographics at SMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the systems engineering majors at Southern Methodist University.

SMU Systems Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 79% of systems engineering master's degrees went to men and 21% went to women.

Of the students who received a systems engineering master's degree from SMU, 53% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the systems engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 44% 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 Southern Methodist University with a master's in systems engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	23
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• General Engineering
• Operations Research
• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Other Engineering

Careers That Systems Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in systems 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 TX, the home state for Southern Methodist University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Architectural and Engineering Managers	12,920	$167,280
Engineers	10,710	$113,370
Engineering Professors	3,890	$123,200

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 Jeffrey Beall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.