January 6, 2005

Engineering master's degrees

An interesting bit in the November 2004 Prism. It's a list of the different engineering disciplines and the number of masters degrees awarded in the US in 2003:

  • comp sci (within engineering): 4997
  • electrical: 4125
  • electrical/Computer: 3998
  • mechanical: 3680
  • civil: 3606
  • other: 3310
  • industrial/manufacturing: 2792
  • computer: 1750
  • eng management: 1508
  • chemical: 1149
  • biomedical: 754
  • aerospace: 721
  • metalug. & materials: 618
  • general: 591
  • environmental: 457
  • eng science & eng physics: 401
  • nuclear: 217
  • petroleum: 200
  • argri: 111
  • mining: 27
  • computer science (outside eng): 956

I sure wish I knew what "other" included...

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