Enrollment of Women in Engineering Fall 2026

Program Undergraduate Women Graduate Women
Aeronautics and astronautics 19% 17%
Agricultural and biological engineering 58% 43%
Biomedical engineering 58% 52%
Chemical engineering 46% 25%
Civil and construction engineering 36% 31%
Electrical and computer engineering 20% 17%
Engineering education - 48%
Engineering management - 48%
First-year engineering 25% -
Industrial engineering 31% 35%
Interdisciplinary / multidisciplinary engineering 44% -
Materials engineering 29% 27%
Mechanical engineering 21% 18%
Nuclear engineering 23% 21%
Sustainability and environmental engineering 56% 46%
Total 27% 23%

Numbers include Purdue University at Indianapolis.

If you want more information on Women in Engineering BS degrees conferred at Purdue, check out the Purdue University Data Digest.

Annual reports for some of our programming (e.g., undergraduate and graduate mentoring programs) are available upon request. Please contact wie@purdue.edu for more information.