Engineering Technology at Eastern Illinois University

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

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year.

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

EIU Engineering Technology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Technology

EIU Engineering Technology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering tech programs across the country. The following shows how EIU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering tech major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering Technology. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	20
Best Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	33
Best Value Engineering Technology Schools	34
	35
Best Engineering Technology Trade Schools	40
Most Focused Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	41
Most Popular Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	43
	49
Most Popular Engineering Technology Trade Schools	113
Most Focused Engineering Technology Trade Schools	123

Engineering Technology Student Demographics at EIU

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

EIU Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students earned a bachelor's degree in engineering tech from EIU. About 33% of these graduates were women and the other 67% were men. The typical engineering tech bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% women. So female students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 18% more women than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering tech at EIU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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

EIU also has a doctoral program available in engineering tech. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 Nyttend under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.