Member Demographics

At the conclusion of the membership recruitment year (4/1 - 3/31), SWE will publish general member statistics. Below is data for FY20 membership year. You can find FY19 Membership statistics here. 

Membership Types:

• Total Membership (Paid): 41,950
• Collegiate (48%): 19,990
• Professional (52%): 21,960

Gender:

• 76.95% Female
• 21.54% Prefer Not To Answer
• 1.51% Male

Discipline:

• 20.42% Mechanical Engineering
• 13.24% Chemical Engineering
• 9.64% Electrical/Electronics Engineering
• 9.04% Biomedical Engineering
• 9.12% Computer Science
• 7.10% Civil Engineering
• 4.95% Industrial Engineering
• 3.98% Computer Engineering
• 3.87% Other Engineering
• 3.60% Aerospace Engineering
• 2.67% Environmental Engineering
• 2.36% Materials Engineering/Science
• 1.85% Bioengineering
• 1.32% Other Non Technical
• 1.20% Other Technical
• 0.78% Mathematics
• 0.78% Systems Engineering
• 0.70% Petroleum Engineering
• 0.67% Technology
• 0.58% Physics
• 0.53% Chemistry
• 0.44% Manufacturing Engineering
• 0.38% Science
• 0.30% Agricultural Engineering
• 0.27% Engineering Physics
• 0.22% Nuclear Engineering
• 0.18% Engineering Education
• 0.18% Structural Engineering
• 0.04% Automotive Engineering

Ethnicity:

• 42.01% Non-Hispanic White
• 30.82% Prefer Not to Answer
• 10.42% Asian/Pacific Islander
• 6.60% Black/African American
• 5.85% Hispanic
• 2.00% Multi-racial
• 1.87% Other
• 0.43% American Indian/Alaskan Native