Undergraduate engineering enrollment increased steadily from 1999 to 2003, reaching a high of over 375,000 full-time students. After a 2 percent decline over the two succeeding years, enrollment rebounded to 373,074 in the fall of 2006. A large part of this recovery was due to the 5 percent increase of freshmen from 2005 to 2006. Mechanical engineering supplanted electrical/computer engineering as the largest discipline. Mechanical engineering enrollment increased by 25 percent since 1999, while electrical/computer engineering decreased by 18 percent. Women make up just 17.4 percent of undergraduate engineering students. This share has declined in recent years after growing to over 20 percent in 1999.
Data source: American Society for Engineering
Education. More data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges.
| Undergraduate Enrollment by Engineering Discipline* |
| 1. Mechanical |
80,288 |
| 2. Electrical/Computer |
75,302 |
| 3. Civil |
44,389 |
| 4.Other |
36,503 |
| 5. Computer Science (inside engineering) |
27,062 |
| 6. Chemical |
23,455 |
| 7. Engineering (General) |
17,011 |
| 8. Aerospace |
15,945 |
| 9. Biomedical |
15,411 |
| 10. Industrial/Manufacturing |
12,970 |
| 11. Architectural |
3,986 |
| 12. Metallurgical & Materials |
3,862 |
| 13. Eng. Science & Eng. Physics |
3,533 |
| 14. Agricultural |
3,038 |
| 15. Petroleum |
2,814 |
| 16. Environmental Engineering |
2,270 |
| 17. Civil/Environmental |
1,790 |
| 18. Nuclear |
1,667 |
| 19. Engineering Management |
1,014 |
| 20. Mining |
764 |
*Enrollment is for full-time bachelor’s degree candidates in engineering.
Data source: American Society for Engineering Education. More
data can be found online at www.asee.org/colleges. |
| Undergraduate Enrollment by Ethnicity and Gender |
| ETHNICITY |
MALE ENROLLMENT |
FEMALE ENROLLMENT |
| African American |
15,367 |
5,392 |
| Asian American |
31,494 |
8,333 |
| Hispanic |
25,776 |
7,557 |
| Native American |
1,821 |
462 |
| Caucasian |
195,454 |
35,273 |
| Foreign National |
15,504 |
3,708 |
| Other |
22,663 |
4,270 |
| Total |
308,079 |
64,995 |
* Includes 5,866 male and 2,632 female enrolled students from schools in Puerto Rico. Enrollment is for full-time bachelor’s degree candidates in engineering.
Data source: American
Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online
at www.asee.org/colleges. |
| Schools with the highest total of undergraduate engineering students* |
| 1. Georgia Institute of Technology |
7,203
|
| 2. Texas A&M University |
6,544
|
| 3. Purdue University |
6,281 |
| 4. Pennsylvania State University |
5,831 |
| 5. North Carolina State University |
5,823 |
| 6. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
5,597 |
| 7. Virginia Tech |
5,483 |
| 8. California Poly. State Univ., SLO |
5,150 |
| 9. University of Texas, Austin |
5,047 |
| 10. University of Michigan |
4,912 |
| 11. Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez |
4,692 |
| 12. Iowa State University |
4,611 |
| 13. University of Florida |
4,573 |
| 14. Ohio State University |
4,362 |
| 15. University of Central Florida |
4,250 |
| 16. California State Poly. U., Pomona |
3,973 |
| 17. Arizona State University |
3,843 |
| 18. University of California, San Diego |
3,820 |
| 19. Polytechnic Univ. of Puerto Rico |
3,806 |
| 20. Drexel University |
3,425 |
| 21. University of Missouri, Rolla |
3,404 |
| 22. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
3,383 |
| 23. Michigan Technological University |
3,187 |
| 24. University of Wisconsin, Madison |
3,179 |
| 25. Clemson University |
3,159 |
* Some schools do not permit formal enrollment in their engineering colleges until the second or third year. Enrollment is full-time plus part-time students.
Data source: American
Society for Engineering Education. More data can be found online
at www.asee.org/colleges. |
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