Just over 20 percent of
the bachelor’s degrees
in engineering go to women,
and those numbers are relatively
unchanged over the past five
years. But in some specific
fields, the percentages are
much higher. For example,
women earn almost 46 percent
of the bachelor’s degrees
awarded in biomedical engineering
and 40 percent in environmental
engineering. The number of
women earning undergraduate
engineering degrees last year
totaled 14,797; 8,724 earned
master’s degrees, and
1,175 were awarded doctoral
degrees.
Statistics compiled by Michael
Gibbons for the American Society
for Engineering Education.
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