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Engineering-Related Fields at Virginia Tech

Engineering-Related Fields at Virginia Tech

If you are interested in studying engineering-related fields, you may want to check out the program at Virginia Tech. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 37,024.

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering-Related Fields

Each year, College Factual ranks engineering-related fields programs across the country. The following shows how Virginia Tech performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The engineering-related fields major at Virginia Tech is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Engineering-Related Fields. 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 Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools 4
Best Engineering-Related Fields Trade Schools 4
Most Popular Engineering-Related Fields Trade Schools 16
Most Popular Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools 16
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Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Schools 22
Best Value Engineering-Related Fields Schools 23
Most Focused Engineering-Related Fields Bachelor’s Degree Trade Schools 39
Most Focused Engineering-Related Fields Trade Schools 42

The median salary of engineering-related fields students who receive their bachelor's degree at Virginia Tech is $62,198. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 0% higher than the national average of $62,086 for all engineering-related fields bachelor's degree recipients.

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Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the engineering-related fields majors at Virginia Tech.

26% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 43 students earned a bachelor's degree in engineering-related fields from Virginia Tech. About 26% of these graduates were women and the other 74% were men.

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About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in engineering-related fields at Virginia Tech are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its engineering-related fields bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor's in engineering-related fields.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 32
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Virginia Tech also has a doctoral program available in engineering-related fields. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

The following engineering-related fields concentations are available at Virginia Tech. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Virginia Tech. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Packaging Science 43

A degree in engineering-related fields can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Industrial Engineers 4,620 $93,980
Engineers 4,190 $118,390
Architectural and Engineering Managers 4,030 $164,300
Engineering Technicians 3,580 $77,280
Industrial Production Managers 2,600 $120,070

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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