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Highest ROI Engineering Majors

Top 50 Engineering college majors by ROI percentile

# 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 Columbia Computer Engineering 21 5% $177,537 100 100% — 52% 33% 24% 19% 10% 14% 1510 1540 1560 67%
7 UCLA Computer Engineering 87 9% $169,159 100 93% — 86% 20% 57% 0% 8% 10% — — — —
8 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering 106 5% $179,140 100 98% — 77% 35% 33% 4% 9% 12% 1510 1540 1570 75%
9 Santa Clara Electrical & Computer Engineering 89 48% $171,545 100 97% — 75% 22% 42% 1% 13% 6% 1330 1400 1470 38%
10 Santa Clara Computer Hardware Engineering 20 48% $171,545 100 98% — 85% 25% 35% 5% 10% 0% 1330 1400 1470 38%
11 Stanford Electrical Engineering 53 4% $167,867 100 87% — 60% 23% 26% 2% 23% 23% 1520 1550 1570 77%
12 Ohio Applied Engineering 39 85% $145,138 100 97% — 85% 74% 3% 3% 8% 3% 1090 1190 1290 44%
13 U. of Colorado Boulder Integrated Design Engineering 39 71% $149,480 100 94% — 54% 51% 10% 0% 23% 3% 1240 1340 1430 24%
14 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Engineering 11 5% $155,827 100 — — 82% 18% 9% 0% 0% 55% 1500 1530 1560 70%
15 U. of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Engineering 82 41% $148,618 100 98% — 84% 45% 13% 0% 7% 21% 1400 1450 1490 41%
16 U. of Pennsylvania Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 21 5% $153,550 100 100% — 43% 29% 33% 0% 0% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
17 Stanford Management Science and Engineering 69 4% $151,221 100 94% — 62% 29% 22% 12% 14% 6% 1520 1550 1570 77%
18 U. of Pennsylvania Electrical Engineering 27 5% $150,663 100 — — 59% 30% 37% 4% 4% 19% 1500 1530 1560 70%
19 Caltech Electrical Engineering 12 4% $148,501 100 — — 67% 33% 42% 0% 8% 8% 1540 1560 1580 100%
20 U. of Maryland, College Park Computer Engineering 88 45% $140,334 100 97% — 88% 39% 27% 9% 7% 6% 1410 1470 1520 44%
21 San Jose State Computer Engineering 100 80% $128,080 100 100% — 86% 7% 65% 1% 11% 8% 1010 1140 1270 10%
22 U. of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering 211 42% $135,812 100 95% — 74% 27% 35% 3% 7% 15% 1320 1410 1500 24%
23 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Computer Engineering 89 30% $132,138 100 97% — 88% 42% 24% 1% 27% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
24 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Engineering 458 37% $137,261 100 98% — 85% 18% 43% 1% 3% 31% 1390 1460 1520 57%
25 Brigham Young Electrical & Computer Engineering 101 68% $123,125 100 97% — 87% 81% 2% 0% 8% 5% 1290 1360 1430 54%
26 Princeton Electrical & Computer Engineering 61 4% $141,806 100 — — 69% 36% 36% 3% 5% 10% 1490 1530 1560 80%
27 Georgia Tech Computer Engineering 132 13% $131,437 100 98% — 86% 30% 36% 5% 4% 17% 1370 1460 1530 100%
28 Cornell Operations Research & Engineering 73 8% $144,786 100 97% — 51% 33% 12% 4% 23% 12% 1490 1520 1550 56%
29 Georgia Southern Manufacturing Engineering 18 89% $124,660 100 100% — 83% 72% 0% 17% 6% 6% 980 1060 1130 53%
30 U. of California, San Diego Computer Engineering 208 29% $137,401 100 97% — 84% 12% 49% 1% 9% 22% — — — —
31 Bucknell Computer Engineering 35 32% $143,017 100 94% — 71% 60% 11% 0% 9% 14% 1170 1270 1360 86%
32 Fresno State Computer Engineering 24 65% $121,889 100 100% — 92% 21% 12% 0% 58% 0% — — — —
33 New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology Electrical Engineering 18 97% $128,286 100 100% — 89% 50% 6% 0% 33% 0% 1080 1200 1310 98%
34 Maine Maritime Academy Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 49 54% $128,364 100 96% — 98% 90% 0% 2% 4% 0% 1090 1180 1260 35%
35 U. of California, Davis Computer Engineering 102 46% $133,509 100 97% — 73% 14% 47% 0% 11% 18% — — — —
36 Texas A&M University - College Station Petroleum Engineering 76 52% $131,062 100 95% — 75% 50% 5% 0% 12% 30% 1160 1280 1390 95%
37 Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering 43 8% $141,021 100 100% — 70% 14% 35% 9% 16% 19% 1510 1540 1560 83%
38 U. of Arkansas Computer Engineering 28 75% $128,714 100 93% — 93% 57% 4% 4% 11% 14% 1030 1130 1220 100%
39 Vanderbilt Electrical & Computer Engineering 24 5% $141,811 99 — — 79% 17% 21% 17% 12% 17% 1510 1540 1560 52%
40 Texas A&M University - College Station Chemical Engineering 185 52% $129,746 99 97% — 62% 50% 17% 1% 26% 0% 1160 1280 1390 95%
41 U. of Wyoming Electrical Engineering 21 95% $124,608 99 95% — 86% 81% 0% 0% 10% 0% — — — —
42 U. of Virginia Computer Engineering 55 16% $137,626 99 95% — 76% 45% 27% 7% 7% 5% 1410 1460 1510 60%
43 Princeton Operations Research and Financial Engineering 67 4% $137,160 99 90% — 70% 36% 24% 7% 9% 15% 1490 1530 1560 80%
44 Kansas State Computer Engineering 22 95% $125,454 99 100% — 100% 86% 5% 0% 5% 5% 1060 1160 1260 87%
45 Rutgers University - New Brunswick Electrical Engineering 238 68% $124,837 99 96% — 84% 25% 46% 4% 13% 8% 1310 1410 1500 55%
46 U. of Southern California Electrical & Computer Engineering 53 11% $138,474 99 — — 58% 17% 32% 6% 19% 21% 1470 1510 1540 45%
47 Texas Tech Petroleum Engineering 24 69% $121,782 99 93% — 83% 25% 0% 4% 54% 12% 1090 1190 1280 44%
48 U. of Mississippi Electrical Engineering 12 75% $124,885 99 95% — 92% 42% 0% 8% 25% 25% 1000 1100 1200 83%
49 Virginia Tech Computer Engineering 208 55% $124,549 99 97% — 92% 46% 19% 6% 8% 10% 1270 1360 1440 50%
50 Columbia Industrial Engineering 11 5% $136,930 99 — — 82% 27% 18% 0% 0% 45% 1510 1540 1560 67%