California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo MS in Engineering

161 Master's Degrees Awarded

Engineering is a program of study at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. The school offers a master’s degree in the area. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in engineering, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.

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Graduate Cost
Online Learning
Student Diversity
Focus Areas
References

How Much Does a Master’s in Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Cost?

$11,505 Average Tuition and Fees

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Graduate Tuition and Fees

The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$7,176	$16,680
Fees	$4,329	$4,329

Does Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Offer an Online MS in Engineering?

Online degrees for the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 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 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Online Learning page.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Master’s Student Diversity for Engineering

161 Master's Degrees Awarded

27.3% Women

28.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 161 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 27.3% of the engineering students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 26.8%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 28.6% of the engineering master’s degrees at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	23
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	12
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	101
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	19

MS in Engineering Focus Areas at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
General Engineering	16
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	21
Architectural Engineering	6
Biomedical Engineering	29
Civil Engineering	36

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.