Engineering Technologies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

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

SIUC is located in Carbondale, Illinois and has a total student population of 11,366.

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

SIUC Engineering Technologies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Tech

Online Classes Are Available at SIUC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, SIUC does offer online courses in engineering tech for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SIUC Engineering Technologies Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the engineering tech progam at SIUC compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering tech major at SIUC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering Technologies. 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
Most Popular Online Engineering Technologies Trade Schools	10
Most Popular Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	12
Best Value Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Schools	25
Most Focused Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools	36
	115
	195

Engineering Tech Student Demographics at SIUC

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

SIUC Engineering Technologies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 204 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Engineering Technologies from SIUC in 2020-2021, 96% were men and 4% were women.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering tech at SIUC 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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale with a bachelor's in engineering tech.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	7
Black or African American	14
Hispanic or Latino	33
White	145
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Concentrations Within Engineering Technologies

If you plan to be a engineering tech 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 Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Mechanical Engineering Technology	92
Industrial Production Technology	84
Electronics Engineering Technology	27
General Engineering Technology	1

Careers That Engineering Tech Grads May Go Into

A degree in engineering tech can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IL, the home state for Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers	30,500	$96,610
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers	28,600	$41,610
Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics	27,250	$46,300
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Construction Managers	12,730	$95,020

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 Mark Jaroski under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.