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Highest Paying Engineering Majors

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

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Engineering 13 86% $203,232 100 97% — 85% 46% 38% 0% 0% 8% 1030 1200 1360 17%
2 U. of Washington - Tacoma Computer Engineering and Systems 10 83% $203,232 100 97% — 80% 30% 30% 10% 30% 0% 940 1070 1200 17%
3 Columbia Operations Research 55 5% $186,286 100 95% — 53% 15% 24% 7% 7% 36% 1510 1540 1560 67%
4 Carnegie Mellon Electrical & Computer Engineering 247 11% $185,819 100 99% — 58% 19% 30% 5% 9% 26% 1500 1530 1560 84%
5 MIT Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) 59 5% $179,558 100 96% — 68% 15% 34% 12% 12% 10% 1520 1550 1570 100%
6 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering 106 5% $179,140 100 98% — 77% 35% 33% 4% 9% 12% 1510 1540 1570 75%
7 Columbia Computer Engineering 21 5% $177,537 100 100% — 52% 33% 24% 19% 10% 14% 1510 1540 1560 67%
8 Santa Clara Computer Hardware Engineering 20 48% $171,545 100 98% — 85% 25% 35% 5% 10% 0% 1330 1400 1470 38%
9 Santa Clara Electrical & Computer Engineering 89 48% $171,545 100 97% — 75% 22% 42% 1% 13% 6% 1330 1400 1470 38%
10 UCLA Computer Engineering 87 9% $169,159 100 93% — 86% 20% 57% 0% 8% 10% — — — —
11 Stanford Electrical Engineering 53 4% $167,867 100 87% — 60% 23% 26% 2% 23% 23% 1520 1550 1570 77%
12 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Engineering 11 5% $155,827 100 — — 82% 18% 9% 0% 0% 55% 1500 1530 1560 70%
13 U. of Pennsylvania Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 21 5% $153,550 100 100% — 43% 29% 33% 0% 0% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
14 Stanford Management Science and Engineering 69 4% $151,221 100 94% — 62% 29% 22% 12% 14% 6% 1520 1550 1570 77%
15 U. of Pennsylvania Electrical Engineering 27 5% $150,663 100 — — 59% 30% 37% 4% 4% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
16 U. of Colorado Boulder Integrated Design Engineering 39 71% $149,480 100 94% — 54% 51% 10% 0% 23% 3% 1240 1340 1430 24%
17 U. of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Engineering 82 41% $148,618 100 98% — 84% 45% 13% 0% 7% 21% 1400 1450 1490 41%
18 Caltech Electrical Engineering 12 4% $148,501 100 — — 67% 33% 42% 0% 8% 8% 1540 1560 1580 100%
19 Ohio Applied Engineering 39 85% $145,138 100 97% — 85% 74% 3% 3% 8% 3% 1090 1190 1290 44%
20 Cornell Operations Research & Engineering 73 8% $144,786 100 97% — 51% 33% 12% 4% 23% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
21 Bucknell Computer Engineering 35 32% $143,017 100 94% — 71% 60% 11% 0% 9% 14% 1170 1270 1360 86%
22 Vanderbilt Electrical & Computer Engineering 24 5% $141,811 99 — — 79% 17% 21% 17% 12% 17% 1510 1540 1560 52%
23 Princeton Electrical & Computer Engineering 61 4% $141,806 100 — — 69% 36% 36% 3% 5% 10% 1490 1530 1560 80%
24 Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering 43 8% $141,021 100 100% — 70% 14% 35% 9% 16% 19% 1510 1540 1560 83%
25 U. of Maryland, College Park Computer Engineering 88 45% $140,334 100 97% — 88% 39% 27% 9% 7% 6% 1410 1470 1520 44%
26 U. of Southern California Electrical & Computer Engineering 53 11% $138,474 99 — — 58% 17% 32% 6% 19% 21% 1470 1510 1540 45%
27 U. of Virginia Computer Engineering 55 16% $137,626 99 95% — 76% 45% 27% 7% 7% 5% 1410 1460 1510 60%
28 Northwestern Computer Engineering 26 7% $137,434 99 96% — 92% 27% 27% 0% 15% 27% 1510 1540 1560 69%
29 U. of California, San Diego Computer Engineering 208 29% $137,401 100 97% — 84% 12% 49% 1% 9% 22% — — — —
30 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Engineering 458 37% $137,261 100 98% — 85% 18% 43% 1% 3% 31% 1390 1460 1520 57%
31 Princeton Operations Research and Financial Engineering 67 4% $137,160 99 90% — 70% 36% 24% 7% 9% 15% 1490 1530 1560 80%
32 Columbia Industrial Engineering 11 5% $136,930 99 — — 82% 27% 18% 0% 0% 45% 1510 1540 1560 67%
33 Northwestern Industrial Engineering 70 7% $135,860 99 100% — 59% 23% 13% 4% 20% 33% 1510 1540 1560 69%
34 U. of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering 211 42% $135,812 100 95% — 74% 27% 35% 3% 7% 15% 1320 1410 1500 24%
35 Northeastern Computer Engineering 108 17% $134,758 99 96% — 81% 44% 22% 7% 8% 9% 1440 1480 1510 28%
36 Northwestern Electrical Engineering 14 7% $133,997 99 — — 79% 29% 29% 0% 14% 21% 1510 1540 1560 69%
37 U. of California, Davis Computer Engineering 102 46% $133,509 100 97% — 73% 14% 47% 0% 11% 18% — — — —
38 Columbia Applied Physics 13 5% $132,555 99 — — 85% 31% 15% 0% 8% 23% 1510 1540 1560 67%
39 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Computer Engineering 89 30% $132,138 100 97% — 88% 42% 24% 1% 27% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
40 Georgia Tech Computer Engineering 132 13% $131,437 100 98% — 86% 30% 36% 5% 4% 17% 1370 1460 1530 100%
41 Rice Operations Research 13 8% $131,390 99 — — 77% 31% 23% 0% 15% 15% 1510 1540 1560 83%
42 Texas A&M University - College Station Petroleum Engineering 76 52% $131,062 100 95% — 75% 50% 5% 0% 12% 30% 1160 1280 1390 95%
43 MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) 45 5% $130,795 99 94% — 53% 53% 20% 4% 16% 2% 1520 1550 1570 100%
44 Boston University Computer Engineering 103 13% $129,988 99 98% — 85% 25% 30% 2% 11% 16% 1420 1470 1510 46%
45 Texas A&M University - College Station Chemical Engineering 185 52% $129,746 99 97% — 62% 50% 17% 1% 26% 0% 1160 1280 1390 95%
46 U. of Virginia Systems Engineering 79 16% $129,664 99 100% — 43% 54% 23% 3% 4% 3% 1410 1460 1510 60%
47 Yale Chemical Engineering 13 3% $129,556 99 — — 46% 23% 15% 0% 23% 31% 1480 1520 1560 92%
48 Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics 17 4% $129,532 99 94% — 94% 47% 29% 0% 18% 6% 1520 1550 1570 77%
49 U. of Arkansas Computer Engineering 28 75% $128,714 100 93% — 93% 57% 4% 4% 11% 14% 1030 1130 1220 100%
50 Northwestern Biomedical Engineering 56 7% $128,551 99 94% — 32% 23% 32% 4% 16% 9% 1510 1540 1560 69%