College of Engineering Quick Facts

The College

• Marquette University is the largest Catholic College of Engineering in the nation with 1027 undergraduates and 299 graduate students.
• Marquette University is ranked number one in the nation among Jesuit colleges of engineering.

The Students

• All students are admitted directly into the College of Engineering as freshmen. There is NO pre-engineering. There are no arbitrary grade point restrictions on eligibility for junior and senior courses.
• Marquette offers students outstanding facilities with laboratories containing up-to-date computing resources so that students are not required to bring their own computers.
• All residence halls are wired for immediate Internet connection with high-speed network connections.
• Some residence hall specialty floors are limited to engineering students.

The Courses

• The College of Engineering guarantees the availability of required courses to graduate in four years.
• All engineering courses are taught by regular faculty with full or part-time faculty appointments rather than teaching assistants.
• The College maintains a near common freshman curricula, making it easy to be an undecided freshman. Transfer within the college departments is not restricted or limited by quotas. Approximately 20% of entering freshmen have undeclared majors.
• Minors are available in many areas including business, mathematics, computer science, physics, and areas of engineering other than the student's major. An Engineering Ethics and Values minor is also available.
• Marquette has been a pioneer in the development of interdisciplinary freshman through senior engineering design. Many senior design projects include significant interaction with local industry.
• The average course credit load for day students is 16.5 credit hours. Average class size in engineering is 33 students for lower-division courses and 23 for upper-division courses.

The Programs

• Cooperative Education opportunities are nationwide, providing first term co-op incomes averaging $14 per hour or more. Approximately 50% of Marquette engineering students participate in Co-op.
• All established programs are ABET accredited. The Biomedical Engineering program is one of only 22 accredited programs in the nation, and is one of the largest.
• Engineering programs can lead to many other career paths such as law, medicine, dentistry, and business.
• A five-year BS/MS degree program is available to engineering students
• All departments offer BS, MS and PhD programs.

The Graduates

• Average starting salaries and rate of profession of Marquette engineering graduates are consistently above the national average. Recent graduates have been placed at a rate of 98.6% within six months of graduation.