Systems Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute

If you plan to study systems engineering, take a look at what Worcester Polytechnic Institute has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

WPI is located in Worcester, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 6,920. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 36 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.

WPI Systems Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at WPI

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? WPI offers distance education options for systems engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

WPI 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 WPI

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

WPI Systems Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 75% of systems engineering master's degrees went to men and 25% went to women.

Of the students who received a systems engineering master's degree from WPI, 78% 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 Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a master's in systems engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	28
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Environmental Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Manufacturing 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 MA, the home state for Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	8,190	$156,250
Engineers	3,090	$109,220
Engineering Professors	1,880	$135,140

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 Runningonbrains under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.