Engineering at University of Central Florida

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

UCF is located in Orlando, Florida and has a total student population of 71,881. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 227 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.

UCF Engineering Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at UCF

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.

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

• Master’s Degree

UCF Engineering Rankings

There were 118 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #23 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at UCF

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

UCF Engineering Master’s Program

The engineering program at UCF awarded 227 master's degrees in 2020-2021. About 74% of these degrees went to men with the other 26% going to women.

In the engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 31% of degree recipients. That is 13% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	11
Hispanic or Latino	38
White	89
International Students	65
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

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 University of Central Florida. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	85
Industrial Engineering	84
Mechanical Engineering	58
Civil Engineering	47
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	28
Computer Engineering	26
Materials Engineering	23
Environmental Engineering	7
Biomedical Engineering	6

Related Majors

• Architecture & Related Services
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Physical Sciences
• Biological & Biomedical Sciences
• Engineering Technologies

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 FL, the home state for University of Central Florida.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Software Applications Developers	38,160	$95,610
Systems Software Developers	17,270	$102,590
Civil Engineers	16,750	$89,480
Cost Estimators	13,220	$62,370
Industrial Engineers	10,570	$77,410

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 Breezy Baldwin under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.