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Cornell University MS in Engineering

Engineering is a program of study at Cornell University. The school offers a master’s degree in the area. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the master’s degree program in engineering, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.

If there’s something special you’re looking for, you can use one of the links below to find it:

• Graduate Cost
• Online Learning
• Student Diversity
• Focus Areas
• References

How Much Does a Master’s in Engineering from Cornell Cost?

Cornell Graduate Tuition and Fees

Part-time graduates at Cornell paid an average of $1,575 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for graduate student.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$29,500	$29,500
Fees	$542	$542

Does Cornell Offer an Online MS in Engineering?

Cornell does not offer an online option for its engineering master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Cornell Online Learning page.

Cornell Master’s Student Diversity for Engineering

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 803 master’s degrees in engineering handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 36.7% of the engineering students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 26.8%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 21.5% of the engineering master’s degrees at Cornell in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	109
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	36
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	178
International Students	439
Other Races/Ethnicities	25

MS in Engineering Focus Areas at Cornell

Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	20
Agricultural Engineering	21
Biomedical Engineering	82
Chemical Engineering	61
Civil Engineering	41

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.