<p>are there Universities you know or have heard of where the Female body in their Engineering school or at least in one of their specific Engineering programs outnumbers their Male counterparts? even if for only a slightly small margin?</p>
<p>Nowhere that I have seen even comes close. While certain areas of engineering might have a higher percentage of females, it is still a fairly low percentage. I can say that in general, for mechanical and electrical, the percentage of females is extremely low.</p>
<p>If you find one let me know. I’ll be transferring ASAP. :)</p>
<p>My year in Materials Science at Carnegie Mellon had something like 12 females and 6 guys. My year in grad school has 15 guys and 1 girl.</p>
<p>ME76, BME has a fairly balanced 1 to 1 female:male ratio, which makes sense as it would attract primarily pre med students.</p>
<p>Smith College and Scripps (but I think scripps engineering is combined with harvey mudd?).</p>
<p>Ah, I remember getting a lot of crud from them when applying to schools. Smith sounds pretty legit.</p>
<p>For all engineering majors, MIT (.44), NC State (.37), and Rice (.37) are notable winners.</p>
<p>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:</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>To summarize: chemical and biomedical engineering have the highest proportion of female students overall. Next is industrial, then civil, then everybody else.</p>
<p>These figures obviously vary by school - if you know what schools you are interested, stop by IPEDS and crunch some data.</p>
<p>Someone told me ChemE at Michigan is 40% female. Overall the engineering school is 23% female.</p>
<p>QwertyKey that can’t possibly be accurate</p>
<p>Why can’t it? The national average for ChemE is 30% female according to what noimagination just posted. Michigan could be slightly beyond average.</p>
<p>my bad I thought he meant, 40% overall</p>
<p>lol, I’m not a native speaker so sometimes I say stuff like that</p>
<p>I’m a girl in EE. Sometimes I’m the only girl in my class. Heck, even in calc based physics there were only two other girls.<br>
Most of the engineering girls I know are in chemical engineering. I think that’s the most common female engineering major. I don’t like chem, so I stayed out of it.</p>
<p>Olin strives for gender balance.</p>
<p>[Olin</a> College : Admission : Applying to Olin](<a href=“http://www.olin.edu/admission/applying_to_olin.asp]Olin”>http://www.olin.edu/admission/applying_to_olin.asp)</p>
<p>Biomedical engineering contains the most females, pretty much at a 1:1 ratio, and I would NOT be a bit surprised if there were more girls. Whoever said it is correct, I do believe ChE does have a larger amount of females then the other disciplines as well. Keep in mind that these two are “desirable” pre-med majors.</p>
<p>geesh, in my days of school, my ChE class consisted of:</p>
<p>29 men
3 women</p>
<p>girls in calc III and in physics I and II are outnumbered greatly in my classes in Miami Dade College.</p>
<p>Recent research has influenced a significant amount of pre med students to pursue BME and ChE degrees.</p>
<p>Batman, those are just classes, not major departments. Many girls in Calc and Physics is reasonable as they are pre med requirements.</p>
<p>ChemE, MatE, BME, and Bioengineering majors will have many females…</p>
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<p>alright, probably has to do with medical school, but why do girls lean toward these majors more?</p>
<p>It’s not simply that “girls” lean to these majors more. “Pre meds” lean towards these majors more, and pre meds are not gender specific, therefore there are more girls in these engineering disciplines than in others.</p>