Membership Statistics & Data
At the conclusion of each fiscal year (6/30 - 7/1), SWE will publish general member statistics. Below is data for FY19, the most recently concluded fiscal year, which concluded 7/1/2019.
Membership Types:
- Total Membership (Paid): 40,520
- Collegiate (51%): 20,594
- Professional (49%): 19,926
Gender:
- 75.26% Female
- 22.74% Prefer Not To Answer
- 2.00% Male
Discipline:
- 20.83% Mechanical Engineering
- 13.95% Chemical Engineering
- 9.50% Electrical/Electronics Engineering
- 9.04% Biomedical Engineering
- 8.21% Computer Science
- 7.44% Civil Engineering
- 5.06% Industrial Engineering
- 3.88% Computer Engineering
- 3.69% Other Engineering
- 3.56% Aerospace Engineering
- 2.74% Environmental Engineering
- 2.38% Materials Engineering/Science
- 1.77% Bioengineering
- 1.20% Other Non-Technical
- 1.03% Other Technical
- 0.75% Petroleum Engineering
- 0.72% Systems Engineering
- 0.68% Mathematics
- 0.57% Physics
- 0.55% Technology
- 0.52% Chemistry
- 0.39% Manufacturing Engineering
- 0.33% Agricultural Engineering
- 0.30% Science
- 0.26% Engineering Physics
- 0.25% Nuclear Engineering
- 0.20% Engineering Education
- 0.20% Structural Engineering
- 0.03% Automotive Engineering
Ethnicity:
- 42.27% Non-Hispanic White
- 32.44% Prefer Not to Answer
- 9.88% Asian/Pacific Islander
- 6.15% Black/African American
- 5.25% Hispanic
- 1.86% Multi-racial
- 1.76% Other
- 0.38% American Indian/Alaskan Native