Engineering degrees awarded annually between 1999-2002:

1999		2000	2001	2002
Bachelor's	62,372	63,731	65,113	67,301
Master's	29,865	29,968	30,913	31,346
Ph.D.'s	5,945	5,990	6,085	5,802

Where The Home Is

Percentages of engineering degrees awarded by residency in 2001-2002:

Bachelor's	Domestics: 92.9%	Foreign nationals: 7.1%
Master's	Domestics: 57.9%	Foreign nationals: 42.1%
Ph.D.'s	Domestics: 46%	Foreign nationals: 54%

Doctoral degress awarded to foreign nationals by school:

1. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	113
2. University of Michigan	108
3. Texas A&M University	93
4. Stanford University	91
5. Georgia Institute of Technology	89
6. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology	88
7. Univ. of Maryland, College Park	83
8. Purdue University	82
9. Ohio State University	75
10. University of California, Berkeley	73
11. Pennsylvania State University	73
12. University of Texas, Austin	73

Dollars for Research

Research expenditures in these engineering disciplines for fiscal 2002

1. Electrical/Computer	$1.1 billion
2. Mechanical	$.630 billion
3. Civil	$.532 billion
4. Chemical	$.324 billion
5. Biomedical	$.219 billion
6. Metallurgical	$.210 billion
7. Aerospace	$.169 billion
8. Industrial	$.133 billion

Research expenditures by school

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	$218.8 mil.
2. Georgia Institute of Technology	$183.5 mil.
3. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	$165.5 mil.
4. Texas A&M University	$164.1 mil.
5. Purdue University	$145.5 mil.
6. University of Michigan	$130.2 mil.
7. University of California, San Diego	$129.6 mil.
8. University of Southern California	$120.6 mil.
9. Stanford University	$116.6 mil.
10. Univ. of Maryland, College Park	$116.4 mil.

 

Statistics compiled by Michael Gibbons.
Data collected by the American Society for Engineering Education