A Comparison Of Demographic Factors And Academic Performances Between Students Graduated In Engineering And Other Disciplines

In this study, demographics and academic performance measures of undergraduate engineering students were compared with science and non-science majors. This study crossed 9 institutions, spanned 13 years, and examined the pre-factors gender, citizenship, high school GPA, SAT math and verbal scores, as well as several indicators of success in college such as time to graduation, cumulative GPA, number of major changes, semesters to graduation, cumulative semester hours, and average hours/semester. Using multivariate statistical methods, we determined that engineering majors differed significantly from science and non-science majors on several variables.