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Highest Paying Engineering Majors

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

# College Major Earnings ROI Employ Degrees Accept SAT
1 U. of Washington - Tacoma Computer Engineering and Systems $223,690 100 97% 12 83% 1070
2 U. of Washington - Bothell Computer Engineering $223,690 100 97% 25 86% 1190
3 Columbia Operations Research $199,865 100 95% 50 4% 1540
4 Santa Clara Electrical & Computer Engineering $191,635 100 98% 80 48% 1400
5 Santa Clara Computer Hardware Engineering $191,635 100 98% 18 48% 1400
6 UCLA Computer Engineering $191,628 100 93% 106 9% —
7 MIT Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) $190,731 100 96% 58 5% 1550
8 Columbia Computer Engineering $190,478 100 100% 25 4% 1540
9 Stanford Electrical Engineering $187,527 100 87% 40 4% 1550
10 Carnegie Mellon Electrical & Computer Engineering $183,814 100 99% 192 11% 1530
11 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Engineering $177,544 100 — 11 5% 1540
12 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering $174,619 100 98% 92 5% 1540
13 Stanford Management Science and Engineering $168,931 100 94% 62 4% 1550
14 Caltech Electrical Engineering $167,461 100 — 13 4% 1550
15 Princeton Electrical & Computer Engineering $161,813 100 — 47 4% 1540
16 U. of Pennsylvania Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering $154,695 100 100% 23 5% 1540
17 U. of California, San Diego Computer Engineering $154,498 100 97% 207 29% —
18 U. of Colorado Boulder Integrated Design Engineering $154,338 100 94% 34 71% 1330
19 Cornell Operations Research & Engineering $151,071 100 97% 56 8% 1530
20 U. of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering $149,484 100 95% 169 42% 1410
21 U. of Maryland, College Park Computer Engineering $149,374 100 97% 94 45% 1460
22 U. of California, Davis Computer Engineering $146,640 100 97% 118 44% —
23 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Computer Engineering $146,406 100 97% 80 30% —
24 Princeton Operations Research and Financial Engineering $145,513 100 90% 72 4% 1540
25 U. of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Engineering $145,337 100 98% 75 41% 1450
26 Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics $144,702 100 94% 13 4% 1550
27 U. of Pennsylvania Electrical Engineering $144,309 100 — 18 5% 1540
28 Northeastern Computer Engineering $143,143 100 96% 124 24% 1490
29 San Jose State Computer Engineering $143,080 100 100% 83 50% —
30 Columbia Applied Physics $142,559 99 — 11 4% 1540
31 Vanderbilt Electrical & Computer Engineering $142,440 99 — 38 4% 1530
32 U. of Southern California Electrical & Computer Engineering $142,374 99 — 50 12% 1500
33 Stanford Mechanical Engineering $140,707 99 96% 56 4% 1550
34 Bucknell Computer Engineering $140,705 99 94% 20 32% 1390
35 U. of California, Santa Barbara Computer Engineering $139,942 100 94% 81 38% —
36 Santa Clara Electrical Engineering $139,616 99 100% 13 48% 1400
37 U. of Virginia Computer Engineering $139,318 99 95% 46 12% 1470
38 Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering $139,102 99 100% 36 8% 1530
39 Yale Electrical Engineering $139,087 99 — 14 4% 1520
40 MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) $138,934 99 94% 55 5% 1550
41 Northwestern Computer Engineering $138,897 99 96% 21 7% 1540
42 Boston University Computer Engineering $138,076 99 98% 70 11% 1470
43 U. of California, Santa Cruz Computer Engineering $137,877 100 96% 154 73% —
44 U. of Southern California Industrial and Systems Engineering $137,590 99 96% 53 12% 1500
45 Northwestern Industrial Engineering $137,306 99 100% 65 7% 1540
46 Stevens Institute of Technology Computer Engineering $136,926 99 95% 58 51% 1420
47 Cooper Union Electrical Engineering $136,287 100 100% 34 12% 1400
48 U. of California, Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research $136,105 100 100% 52 11% —
49 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Engineering $136,097 100 98% 392 37% 1410
50 Stanford Chemical Engineering $135,900 99 — 10 4% 1550