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Engineering at Yale University

Engineering at Yale University

If you are interested in studying engineering, you may want to check out the program at Yale University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 12,060 students attend the school each year.

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

Yale Engineering Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
  • Master’s Degree in Engineering

Yale Engineering Rankings

There were 42 students who received their doctoral degrees in engineering, making the school the #80 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Engineering Student Demographics at Yale

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

Yale Engineering Master’s Program

43% Women
25% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 57% of engineering master's degrees went to men and 43% went to women.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 15
Black or African American 9
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 23
International Students 71
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Biomedical Engineering 43
Environmental Engineering 22
Engineering Physics 18
Mechanical Engineering 18
Electrical Engineering 12
General Engineering 2

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 CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation Jobs in CT Average Salary in CT
Software Applications Developers 11,540 $105,500
Industrial Engineers 5,840 $89,830
Mechanical Engineers 4,020 $94,270
Civil Engineers 3,630 $93,630
Architectural and Engineering Managers 3,570 $143,920

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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