Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

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

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 170 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.

UTEP Engineering Degrees Available

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

UTEP Engineering Rankings

There were 26 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #113 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at UTEP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering majors at The University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP Engineering Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 170 students earned a master's degree in engineering from UTEP. About 29% of these graduates were women and the other 71% were men.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 67% of degree recipients. That is 50% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso with a master's in engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	105
White	14
International Students	41
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Engineering

If you plan to be a engineering major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from The University of Texas at El Paso. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering	52
Systems Engineering	38
Computer Engineering	33
Environmental Engineering	13
Biomedical Engineering	12
Civil Engineering	12
Electrical Engineering	10
Manufacturing Engineering	10
Industrial Engineering	8
Materials Engineering	4
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	3
General Engineering	1

Related Majors

• Natural Resources & Conservation
• Computer & Information Sciences
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Physical 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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at El Paso.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Software Applications Developers	71,260	$108,760
Systems Software Developers	28,720	$110,740
Civil Engineers	24,460	$102,990
Mechanical Engineers	20,820	$105,570
Petroleum Engineers	19,260	$169,010

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 Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.