Milwaukee School of Engineering — All Rankings Are Wrong

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Basic Information

Type Private

Geographical Reach Regional

Location Milwaukee, WI

Population 1,300,000

Website http://www.msoe.edu/

Weather

Comfortable Days 105 (50%) very dry

Sunshine Hours 2,370 (24%)

Days Without Precipitation 244 (44%)

Demographics

Total Undergraduates 2,647

Men / Women 71% / 29%

From State 51%

From Region 32%

Athletes 24.5%

Racial/Ethnic

White 67%

Hispanic 12%

Asian 5%

International 5%

Black 3%

Mixed 3%

Native American 0%

Men in the Entering Class

Men

Entering Class by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of the full-time first-time degree-seeking cohort. Groups IPEDS reports separately — two or more races, and race unknown — are left out, so the lines don't sum to 100%.

Enrolled Undergraduates by Race & Ethnicity

Native Asian Black Hispanic White International

Share of all full-time degree-seeking undergraduates, not just the entering class. Same excluded groups as above.

IPEDS Admissions (2011–2024), Graduation Rates (2011–2024) and 12-month Enrollment (2020–2025) surveys. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Schools & Majors

⇅	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Milwaukee School of Engineering	557	75% / 25%	3%	$91,907	90	97%
Architectural Engineering	37 —	54% / 46%	0%	$91,091	89	98%
Biomedical Engineering	28 —	61% / 39%	4%	$87,968	87	96%
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	22 —	59% / 41%	0%	$77,499	77	95%
Civil Engineering	46 —	76% / 24%	4%	$93,930	91	100%
Computer Engineering	38 —	82% / 18%	0%	$103,008	95	95%
Electrical Engineering	51 —	86% / 14%	6%	$89,850	88	96%
Engineering	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$88,320	87	—
Industrial Engineering	14 —	86% / 14%	7%	$93,192	91	96%
Mechanical Engineering	122 —	91% / 9%	1%	$90,371	89	99%
Computer Science	46 —	91% / 9%	4%	$101,501	95	—
Human Computer Interaction	11 —	64% / 36%	0%	$80,885	81	—
Software Engineering	35 —	91% / 9%	0%	$103,008	95	95%
Nursing	41 —	17% / 83%	0%	$82,181	82	95%
Accounting	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$84,517	84	—
Actuarial Science	15 —	67% / 33%	0%	$89,165	88	—
Business Administration	7 —	43% / 57%	71%	$88,310	87	100%
Finance	4 —	50% / 50%	0%	$89,841	88	—
Management Information Systems	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	—	—	—
Marketing	5 —	80% / 20%	0%	$87,028	86	—
Supply Chain Management	8 —	75% / 25%	50%	$88,310	87	100%
Technical Sales	1 —	100% / 0%	0%	$87,471	87	—
Construction Management	23 —	83% / 17%	0%	$94,105	91	100%

Financial

Tuition & Fees $52,217

ROI Percentile 90th

Retention & Graduation

Full-Time Retention 84%

4-Year Graduation Rate 48%

6-Year Graduation Rate 67%

Transfer-Out Rate 22%

Six-Year Graduation Rate

Graduated

Students finishing within 150% of normal time. Each year labels the cohort that entered six years earlier — 2024 tracks the class that started in 2018.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Gender

Men Women

IPEDS reports the cohort as men and women only.

Six-Year Graduation Rate by Race & Ethnicity

Asian Hispanic White International

Each group's completers over its own share of the entering cohort. Groups making up less than 2% of everyone this college graduated over the period are left off — their rates swing on a handful of students and read as noise.

IPEDS Graduation Rates survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Earnings by Major Category

Each major category's degree-weighted estimated median 5-year earnings at this college, expressed as a z-score against the national degree-weighted distribution for that category. 0 is the national average. The shaded band between +1.28 and −1.28 marks the central 80% of the national distribution (10th–90th percentile).

Academics

⇅	%	Degrees	Male/Female	Intl	Earnings	ROI	Employment
Engineering	64.5%	359	79% / 21%	2%	$91,293	89	98%
Computer Science	16.5%	92	88% / 12%	2%	$99,609	94	95%
Business & Economics	7.5%	42	67% / 33%	21%	$88,503	87	100%
Health Sciences	7.4%	41	17% / 83%	0%	$82,181	82	95%
Professional	4.1%	23	83% / 17%	0%	$94,105	91	100%

Research R3

⇅	Research $	Rank	Federal	Industry $	PhDs	Rank	PhD students	Postdocs
Engineering	$3.0M	#233	18%	$2.4M	—	—	—	—
Computer Science	$0.1M	#422	56%	$0.0M	—	—	—	—
Humanities & Social Sciences	$0.0M	#533	0%	$0	—	—	—	—
Agriculture & Food Science	$0	#318	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Business & Economics	$0	#456	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Education	$0	#457	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Health Sciences	$0	#441	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Life & Natural Sciences	$0	#547	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Physical Sciences & Math	$0	#623	—	$0	—	—	—	—
Total	$3.1M	#443	19%	$2.4M	—	—	—	—

Expenditure and funding source: NSF HERD, FY2024. Degrees: IPEDS completions, 2023–24. Students and postdocs: NSF Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates, fall 2024, which covers science, engineering and selected health fields only. An em dash means the source does not report the figure, which is not the same as zero.

Admissions

Uses Common App Yes

Acceptance Rate 67%

Yield (Unbound) 22%

Regular Decision Jan 1

Acceptance Rates

	In-State	Out-of-State	International
Regular Decision	67%	67%	67%

Acceptance & Yield

Acceptance Yield

Applicants, Admitted & Enrolled

Applicants Admitted Enrolled

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line.

Standardized Tests

Test Policy optional

Submitted Test Scores 31%

SAT Range 1200 – 1370

SAT Math Range 600 – 710

SAT RW Range 590 – 680

SAT Composite

25th 75th

SAT Math

25th 75th

SAT Reading & Writing

25th 75th

Submitting a Test Score

Submitted

IPEDS Admissions survey, 2011–2024. Years a college didn't file leave a gap in the line. Test-score submission adds SAT and ACT submitters, capped at 100% — a student can send both.