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Harvard University MS in Engineering

Engineering is a program of study at Harvard University. The school offers a master’s degree in the area. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in engineering, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, 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 Harvard Cost?

Harvard Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Harvard was $1,545 per credit hour 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	$49,448	$49,448
Fees	$1,206	$1,206

Does Harvard Offer an Online MS in Engineering?

Online degrees for the Harvard engineering master’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Harvard Online Learning page.

Harvard Master’s Student Diversity for Engineering

There were 179 master’s degrees in engineering awarded during the 2019-2020 academic year. Information about those students is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 29.6% 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

Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in engineering at Harvard in 2019-2020, 29.1% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	35
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	9
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	62
International Students	61
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

MS in Engineering Focus Areas at Harvard

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Biomedical Engineering	7
Computer Engineering	82
Engineering Physics	10
Engineering Science	80

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.