Graduate Enrollment (Fall 2011)

• Total graduate engineering enrollment: 378
  
• Master's degree full-time: 18
  
• Master's degree part-time: 3
  
• Ph.D. full-time: 357
  

By Degree & Degree Area (2011)

Note: Numbers are approximate (depending on time of declaration of field).

• Applied Mathematics: 19
• Applied Physics: 137
• Computer Science: 63
  
• Engineering Sciences: 158
  

By Gender (all degrees)

• Women: 108 (28%)
  
• Men: 270 (72%)

By Race/Ethnicity/Nationality

• African American: 5
• Asian American/Pacific: 47
  
• Hispanic American: 8
• Native American: 0
• Foreign National: 182

Number of Applicants/Selectivity (all programs, 2011)

• Total applicants (master's and Ph.D.): 1,993
• Acceptances: 171
  
• Overall acceptance rate: 8.6%

Admitted Ph.D Students (2010 data)

• Average GPA: 3.70
• Average GRE Verbal Score: 548
• Average GRE Quantitative Score: 800
• Average GRE Analytical Score: 4.00
• TOEFL required for international students: Yes
• Minimum TOEFL score required for computer test: 213
• Minimum TOEFL score required for paper test: 550

Top Cross Over Programs

Accepted students in engineering and applied sciences who chose not to attend Harvard, most commonly went to: Stanford University, MIT, UC-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cambridge University (UK), Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania.

After Harvard

Our graduates have gone on to take positions at some of the finest research institutions in the world, including: Ben Gurion University (Israel), Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, MIT, National University of Singapore, Princeton University, University of California–Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Sydney (Australia), University of Virginia, and right here at Harvard.

Those pursuing careers in industry and government have worked for technology companies such as Pixar, Google, and IBM; defense contractors such as Northrop Grumman; policy and research organizations such as the National Institutes of Health; banking and investment firms like Citigroup; and environmental consulting groups like Boston-based CDM.

Others have become entrepreneurs. Our graduates started Tacit Knowledge Systems and SupplyWorks. In fact, some of the most well-known companies in the world were started by Harvard graduates—for example, Electronic Arts, 3Com, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft.

* includes students who have earned A.B, S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. degrees.