Engineering at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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

UCCS is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado and has a total student population of 12,380. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 50 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.

UCCS Engineering Degrees Available

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

UCCS Engineering Rankings

There were 16 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #144 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at UCCS

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

UCCS Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 50 students who earned a master's degree in Engineering from UCCS in 2020-2021, 78% were men and 22% were women.

Of the students who received a engineering master's degree from UCCS, 68% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	34
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Engineering

The following engineering concentations are available at University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Engineering	50
Electrical Engineering	10
Mechanical Engineering	6

Related Majors

• Mathematics & Statistics
• Computer & Information 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 CO, the home state for University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Occupation	Jobs in CO	Average Salary in CO
Software Applications Developers	30,400	$106,730
Systems Software Developers	11,170	$124,410
Civil Engineers	10,680	$93,560
Computer Network Architects	6,040	$115,300
Electronics Engineers	5,630	$105,560

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 M Foster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.