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Highest Paying Engineering Majors

Top 50 Engineering college majors by estimated median 5-year earnings

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings Earn % Earn z ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering 106 5% $198,126 100 +3.83 100 95% — 77% 35% 33% 4% 9% 12% 1510 1540 1570 75%
2 Carnegie Mellon Electrical & Computer Engineering 247 11% $197,233 99 +3.78 100 98% — 58% 19% 30% 5% 9% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
3 UCLA Computer Engineering 87 9% $188,644 99 +3.38 100 100% — 86% 20% 57% 0% 8% 10% — — — —
4 Columbia Computer Engineering 21 4% $177,537 99 +2.85 100 100% — 52% 33% 24% 19% 10% 14% 1510 1540 1560 67%
5 U. of Maryland, College Park Computer Engineering 88 45% $176,248 99 +2.79 100 94% — 88% 39% 27% 9% 7% 6% 1410 1470 1520 44%
6 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Engineering 458 37% $174,097 99 +2.69 100 96% — 85% 18% 43% 1% 3% 31% 1390 1460 1520 57%
7 U. of Washington - Tacoma Computer Engineering and Systems 10 83% $173,260 99 +2.65 100 94% — 80% 30% 30% 10% 30% 0% 940 1070 1200 17%
8 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Engineering 13 86% $173,260 99 +2.65 100 94% — 85% 46% 38% 0% 0% 8% 1030 1200 1360 17%
9 U. of Washington Computer Engineering 28 42% $173,260 99 +2.65 100 94% — 82% 36% 29% 4% 11% 14% 1320 1410 1500 24%
10 Columbia Operations Research 55 4% $173,114 100 +3.82 100 86% — 53% 15% 24% 7% 7% 36% 1510 1540 1560 67%
11 Bucknell Computer Engineering 35 32% $170,683 99 +2.53 100 94% — 71% 60% 11% 0% 9% 14% 1170 1270 1360 86%
12 MIT Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) 59 5% $170,669 98 +2.53 100 99% — 68% 15% 34% 12% 12% 10% 1520 1550 1570 100%
13 U. of Notre Dame Computer Engineering 21 9% $168,028 98 +2.41 100 100% — 76% 67% 5% 0% 5% 10% 1460 1500 1540 67%
14 U. of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Engineering 82 41% $166,862 98 +2.35 100 94% — 84% 45% 13% 0% 7% 21% 1400 1450 1490 41%
15 U. of Virginia Computer Engineering 55 13% $165,686 98 +2.30 100 100% — 76% 45% 27% 7% 7% 5% 1410 1460 1510 60%
16 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Engineering 11 6% $162,568 98 +2.15 100 — — 82% 18% 9% 0% 0% 55% 1500 1530 1560 70%
17 Santa Clara Electrical & Computer Engineering 89 48% $162,055 98 +2.12 100 98% — 75% 22% 42% 1% 13% 6% 1330 1400 1470 38%
18 Santa Clara Computer Hardware Engineering 20 48% $162,055 98 +2.12 100 98% — 85% 25% 35% 5% 10% 0% 1330 1400 1470 38%
19 Caltech Electrical Engineering 12 4% $161,537 98 +2.10 100 — — 67% 33% 42% 0% 8% 8% 1540 1560 1580 100%
20 U. of Pennsylvania Electrical Engineering 27 6% $159,413 98 +2.00 100 — — 59% 30% 37% 4% 4% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
21 Cornell Electrical & Computer Engineering 90 9% $159,404 97 +2.00 100 94% — 58% 33% 26% 7% 11% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
22 U. of Virginia Systems Engineering 79 13% $158,735 98 +2.90 100 97% — 43% 54% 23% 3% 4% 3% 1410 1460 1510 60%
23 Northwestern Electrical Engineering 14 7% $156,047 97 +1.84 100 — — 79% 29% 29% 0% 14% 21% 1520 1540 1560 73%
24 Stanford Electrical Engineering 53 4% $155,091 94 +1.80 100 94% — 60% 23% 26% 2% 23% 23% 1520 1550 1570 77%
25 Olin College of Engineering Electrical Engineering 30 8% $153,570 94 +1.72 100 96% — 43% 50% 13% 0% 17% 3% 1490 1530 1560 25%
26 Texas Tech Petroleum Engineering 24 69% $150,514 97 +1.71 100 97% — 83% 25% 0% 4% 54% 12% 1090 1190 1280 44%
27 Northwestern Industrial Engineering 70 7% $150,109 97 +2.34 99 96% — 59% 23% 13% 4% 20% 33% 1520 1540 1560 73%
28 U. of Colorado Boulder Integrated Design Engineering 39 71% $149,479 100 +3.88 100 94% — 54% 51% 10% 0% 23% 3% 1130 1250 1370 33%
29 Boston University Computer Engineering 103 15% $149,174 93 +1.52 100 99% — 85% 25% 30% 2% 11% 16% 1420 1470 1510 46%
30 Princeton Electrical & Computer Engineering 61 4% $149,093 93 +1.51 100 — — 69% 36% 36% 3% 5% 10% 1490 1530 1560 80%
31 U. of Texas at Austin Electrical & Computer Engineering 365 27% $148,233 92 +1.47 100 96% — 81% 25% 49% 1% 15% 3% 1320 1450 1530 74%
32 Cornell Operations Research & Engineering 73 9% $148,080 95 +2.21 99 98% — 51% 33% 12% 4% 23% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
33 U. of North Dakota Electrical Engineering 34 82% $147,605 91 +1.44 100 96% 4.4% 85% 76% 3% 3% 6% 6% — — — —
34 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Computer Engineering 89 30% $146,862 91 +1.41 100 96% — 88% 42% 24% 1% 27% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
35 Northeastern Computer Engineering 108 17% $146,514 91 +1.39 99 94% — 81% 44% 22% 7% 8% 9% 1440 1480 1510 28%
36 Vanderbilt Electrical & Computer Engineering 24 4% $145,648 91 +1.35 99 — — 79% 17% 21% 17% 12% 17% 1510 1540 1560 52%
37 Santa Clara Electrical Engineering 11 48% $145,443 91 +1.34 99 100% — 100% 45% 36% 0% 9% 9% 1330 1400 1470 38%
38 Ohio Applied Engineering 39 85% $145,134 99 +3.55 100 97% — 85% 74% 3% 3% 8% 3% 1090 1190 1290 44%
39 U. of Texas Permian Basin Petroleum Engineering 16 65% $144,447 93 +1.42 100 95% — 81% 31% 0% 6% 50% 12% 910 1020 1130 42%
40 San Jose State Computer Engineering 100 80% $142,378 90 +1.20 100 93% — 86% 7% 65% 1% 11% 8% 1010 1140 1270 10%
41 Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering 43 8% $141,020 89 +1.13 99 100% — 70% 14% 35% 9% 16% 19% 1510 1540 1560 83%
42 Brown Electrical Engineering 10 6% $140,976 89 +1.13 99 — — 70% 40% 0% 20% 20% 10% 1470 1510 1550 100%
43 U. of Nebraska, Lincoln Computer Engineering 24 80% $140,862 89 +1.12 100 100% — 100% 79% 8% 4% 8% 0% 1090 1210 1330 89%
44 Texas A&M - College Station Petroleum Engineering 76 52% $140,534 86 +1.24 100 94% — 75% 50% 5% 0% 12% 30% 1160 1280 1390 95%
45 Princeton Operations Research and Financial Engineering 67 4% $139,817 94 +1.68 99 90% — 70% 36% 24% 7% 9% 15% 1490 1530 1560 80%
46 U. of Pennsylvania Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics 63 6% $138,679 100 +4.96 99 97% — 71% 38% 24% 5% 13% 11% 1500 1530 1560 70%
47 U. of Florida Computer Engineering 126 20% $137,498 89 +0.96 100 95% — 79% 49% 15% 1% 27% 2% 1330 1410 1490 100%
48 Northwestern Computer Engineering 26 7% $137,432 89 +0.96 99 96% — 92% 27% 27% 0% 15% 27% 1520 1540 1560 73%
49 U. of California, Davis Computer Engineering 102 46% $137,264 89 +0.95 99 95% — 73% 14% 47% 0% 11% 18% — — — —
50 Duke Mechanical Engineering 114 5% $137,082 100 +4.76 99 100% — 67% 54% 15% 2% 13% 9% 1510 1540 1570 75%