Schools where female students outnumbers males

noimagination
Wed, 12 May 2010 22:24:31 +0000

For all engineering majors, MIT (.44), NC State (.37), and Rice (.37) are notable winners.

As far as majors go, here are the 25th %ile, median, and 75th %ile ratios for all 224 schools with > 75 engineering grads in 2008:

Aero: .11 | .14 | .2
BME: .33 | .39 | .5
ChE: .3 | .3 | .4
CivE: .2 | .2 | .3
EE: .1 | .1 | .2
MechE: .1 | .1 | .2
IndE: .2 | .3 | .4

To summarize: chemical and biomedical engineering have the highest proportion of female students overall. Next is industrial, then civil, then everybody else.

These figures obviously vary by school - if you know what schools you are interested, stop by IPEDS and crunch some data.