Computer Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
For future software developers, software engineers or programmers, a graduate degree in computer engineering combines training in electrical engineering and computer science. These are the top schools for computer engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
Rankings | Overall Engineering School Program Data | |||||||||||
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 5.0 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#2Tie | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 4.7 | $43,000 per year (full-time) | 3,737 | 166 | $195,765,115 | ||||||
#2Tie | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.7 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#2Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 4.7 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#5 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.5 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#6 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.4 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#7Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 4.2 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#7Tie | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 4.2 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#9Tie | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4.1 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#9Tie | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 4.1 | $45,320 per year (full-time) | 615 | 167 | $62,990,633 | ||||||
#9Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 4.1 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#9Tie | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 4.1 | $16,917 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,153 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,416 | 163 | $151,225,559 | ||||||
#9Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 4.1 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#14Tie | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | 3.9 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,635 | 166 | $168,012,410 | ||||||
#14Tie | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | 3.9 | $29,520 per year (full-time) | 5,497 | 166 | $192,117,384 | ||||||
#16 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 3.8 | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 | ||||||
#17Tie | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 3.7 | $43,296 per year (full-time) | 478 | 166 | $50,054,491 | ||||||
#17Tie | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX | 3.7 | $43,220 per year (full-time) | 949 | 166 | $69,614,390 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 3.7 | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | ||||||
#17Tie | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 3.7 | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | ||||||
#21Tie | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.6 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#21Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.6 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#21Tie | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 3.6 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#24Tie | Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC | 3.5 | $52,925 per year (full-time) | 1,093 | 164 | $97,205,000 | ||||||
#24Tie | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | 3.5 | $50,410 per year (full-time) | 3,692 | 166 | $121,140,156 |