Best Colleges for Computer Engineering by Graduate Earnings

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Best colleges for Computer Engineering

Ranked by median Computer Engineering graduate earnings (~10 years after entry) from College Scorecard’s field-of-study data — the financial outcome for that specific field, not a prestige ranking. Source-cited; model your own odds and net price at each.

#	College	Location	Computer Engineering earnings	Net price	Accept.
1	UW (Seattle)	Seattle, WA	$120,252	$14,091	39%
2	University of Washington-Tacoma Campus	Tacoma, WA	$120,252	$10,163	83%
3	University of Washington-Bothell Campus	Bothell, WA	$120,252	$12,319	91%
4	Santa Clara University	Santa Clara, CA	$103,449	$50,062	48%
5	Princeton	Princeton, NJ	$103,078	$6,128	5%
6	Duke	Durham, NC	$97,071	$29,612	6%
7	UCLA	Los Angeles, CA	$97,071	$12,548	9%
8	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo, CA	$93,964	$16,665	31%
9	USC	Los Angeles, CA	$90,602	$32,740	10%
10	UVA	Charlottesville, VA	$90,146	$21,565	17%
11	Rose-Hulman	Terre Haute, IN	$90,049	$42,513	77%
12	Northeastern	Boston, MA	$89,564	$30,915	5%
13	RPI	Troy, NY	$88,933	$36,228	63%
14	Bucknell	Lewisburg, PA	$87,604	$40,766	29%
15	BYU	Provo, UT	$87,604	$15,564	68%
16	Northwestern	Evanston, IL	$85,918	$29,167	8%
17	Johns Hopkins	Baltimore, MD	$84,653	$18,809	6%
18	Illinois	Champaign, IL	$84,100	$14,355	42%
19	Georgia Tech	Atlanta, GA	$83,270	$12,116	14%
20	BU	Boston, MA	$82,440	$24,402	11%
21	UC Davis	Davis, CA	$82,440	$14,741	42%
22	Wisconsin	Madison, WI	$81,997	$17,354	45%
23	Syracuse	Syracuse, NY	$81,333	$38,793	46%
24	Maryland	College Park, MD	$80,466	$15,678	45%
25	Michigan State	East Lansing, MI	$80,133	$19,680	85%
26	UC San Diego	La Jolla, CA	$79,688	$12,470	27%
27	Notre Dame	Notre Dame, IN	$79,598	$26,780	11%
28	Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	$79,389	$13,138	16%
29	Rochester Institute of Technology	Rochester, NY	$79,389	$34,906	67%
30	UC Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz, CA	$79,150	$17,890	66%
31	Virginia Tech	Blacksburg, VA	$78,488	$24,953	55%
32	San Jose State University	San Jose, CA	$78,074	$13,760	85%
33	NYU	New York, NY	$77,715	$37,050	9%
34	Florida	Gainesville, FL	$77,715	$6,541	24%
35	Stevens	Hoboken, NJ	$77,213	$41,346	48%
36	UC Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, CA	$76,773	$16,109	33%
37	Miami (OH)	Oxford, OH	$76,460	$28,384	75%
38	Clarkson University	Potsdam, NY	$76,460	$30,305	77%
39	Oakland University	Rochester Hills, MI	$76,460	$9,120	88%
40	New Hampshire	Durham, NH	$76,460	$23,805	88%
41	Portland State University	Portland, OR	$76,460	$9,552	91%
42	Arizona State University Digital Immersion	Scottsdale, AZ	$75,804	—	67%
43	Arizona State	Tempe, AZ	$75,804	$14,967	90%
44	Colorado State University-Fort Collins	Fort Collins, CO	$75,706	$21,279	89%
45	UMass Amherst	Amherst, MA	$75,518	$22,383	60%
46	CU Boulder	Boulder, CO	$75,204	$25,346	78%
47	Washington State	Pullman, WA	$75,204	$14,971	87%
48	Texas A&M	College Station, TX	$75,011	$21,315	57%
49	The University of Texas at Dallas	Richardson, TX	$74,953	$18,267	65%
50	University of Dayton	Dayton, OH	$74,576	$29,533	65%

Quick answers

How are the best colleges for Computer Engineering ranked?

By the median earnings of Computer Engineering graduates ~10 years after entry, from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard field-of-study data. It measures financial outcomes for that specific field at each school — not overall prestige or how hard it is to get in.

Does a higher rank mean the program is better, or easier to enter?

Neither on its own. It means graduates of that field tend to earn more — which reflects the field, the school, and who enrolls. Admission difficulty is separate: use each school's acceptance rate here, then run your personalized odds. Earnings also lag ~2 years and cover federally-aided graduates.

Why isn't every college listed?

We only rank schools where College Scorecard reports field-of-study earnings for Computer Engineering among the school's programs, so coverage grows as more institutions report. A missing school isn't a judgment — we just don't have verified Computer Engineering earnings for it yet.

Earnings are field-of-study medians from College Scorecard and lag ~2 years; they cover federally-aided graduates, not every student, and are not a guarantee of individual outcomes.

These outputs are estimates from a baseline model — not guarantees of admission, cost, or outcome.