Learn How Lehigh Prepares Your Student for a Future-Proof Career
Learn How Lehigh Prepares Your Student for a Future-Proof Career
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A Future-Focused Approach to Engineering
A Future-Focused Approach to Engineering
In the Rossin College, your student’s engineering education goes beyond the traditional classroom. Starting in their first semester, they will work alongside faculty mentors in small classes while connecting technology and design with business, social science and the arts. A supportive, collaborative environment fosters your student’s curiosity and encourages them to explore their passions, while preparing them to meet the demands of the field.
FYRE: Future-Focused Engineering From Day One
FYRE: Future-Focused Engineering From Day One
As a Lehigh engineering student, your student will learn by doing. Beginning on day one, the First-Year Rossin Engineering program (FYRE) connects their foundational coursework to real-world projects so they can start developing their interdisciplinary problem-solving skills and defining their path right away.
Discover the elements of the FYRE experience:
Discover the elements of the FYRE experience:
Exploring Engineering Disciplines
Intensive half-semester modules let your student sample the different engineering disciplines in the Rossin College through hands-on projects before declaring their major.
Practical Skills, Proven
Your student can demonstrate their engineer's mindset and hands-on skills through real team projects and classwide expos. Your student will have a myriad of opportunities to apply their classroom learnings to real problems.
Collaborative Connections
Students work with peers and mentors in design teams, research labs and maker spaces to refine practical skills, grow their leadership abilities and create impactful solutions.
A Real Student’s Perspective
Follow along as current student Haili shares some of the FYRE technical and teamwork experiences that gave her a strong start in engineering at Lehigh.
Proven Career Outcomes
Proven Career Outcomes
At Lehigh, we work as hard as your student does to turn their potential into a career that makes a meaningful mark on the world. Our culture is collaborative, not cutthroat, and they’ll find their peers and professors are all-in on their success. Our combination of real-world experience and community support allows your student to thrive at Lehigh and beyond.
Aidan
Dufault
25
Aidan
Dufault
25
Mechanical Engineer, Starship Structures at SpaceX
I wouldn’t be where I am today without the abundant professional development activities in my courses, in addition to extracurriculars like the Formula SAE team—Lehigh did a great job preparing me for an awesome career!
RCEAS Outcomes
93%
successfully secured opportunities
successfully secured opportunities
93% of 2025 Rossin College graduates were employed, continuing education or engaged in other pursuits within six months of graduation.
Best Colleges for Long-Term Career Success by LinkedIn
#23
in the U.S.
in the U.S.
Ranked 23rd on LinkedIn’s list of Best Colleges for Long-Term Career Success.
RCEAS Starting Salary - Carnegie Pages
$85K
average starting salary
average starting salary
For starting salary by major and top industries, visit our Post-Graduation Career Outcomes page.
Best Return on Investment by U.S. News
#13
return on investment
return on investment
Ranked by U.S. News Best Return on Investment (40-year NPV of $3.5mm) alongside being named #17 Top 20 Career Placement by The Princeton Review.
Salary Potential by Payscale
#12
salary potential
salary potential
Ranked by Payscale with a mid-career salary of $181K.
Transforming Ambition Into Action
Learn more about Lehigh University, where future makers come to drive real-world change.