Survey: UConn Setting the Pace in Producing Female Engineers

STORRS, CT — The percentage of woman graduating from the University of Connecticut's engineering programs has surged more than at any of the 90 public institutions surveyed recently by The Washington Post.

UConn released the findings on Thursday.

What UConn officials call a "commitment to diversity" resulted in a 9.3 percent increase in female engineering graduates between 2010 and 2015, which was highest among public institutions and state flagships, according to UConn officials and the survey.

Nearly a quarter (24.3 percent) of the school’s graduates in 2015 were women, leading to UConn being ranked eighth nationally in terms of the percentage of female students earning engineering bachelor’s degrees last year.

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