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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor PhD in Engineering

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

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

How Much Does a Doctorate in Engineering from U-M Cost?

U-M Graduate Tuition and Fees

Out-of-state part-time graduates at U-M paid an average of $2,686 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $1,309 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$24,344	$49,120
Fees	$428	$428

Does U-M Offer an Online PhD in Engineering?

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

U-M Doctorate Student Diversity for Engineering

In the 2019-2020 academic year, 286 students received their doctor’s degree in engineering. The gender and racial-ethnic breakdown of those individuals is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 24.8% of the engineering students who took home a doctor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 24.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 12.9% of engineering doctor’s degree recipients at U-M in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 12%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	18
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	80
International Students	148
Other Races/Ethnicities	24

PhD in Engineering Focus Areas at U-M

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	18
Biomedical Engineering	20
Chemical Engineering	15
Civil Engineering	8
Computer Engineering	32

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.