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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 - Bothell Computer Engineering $203,232 100 97% 13 86% 1200
2 U. of Washington - Tacoma Computer Engineering and Systems $203,232 100 97% 10 83% 1070
3 Columbia Operations Research $186,286 100 95% 55 4% 1540
4 Carnegie Mellon Electrical & Computer Engineering $185,819 100 99% 247 11% 1530
5 MIT Electrical Engineering with Computing (Course 6-5) $179,558 100 96% 59 5% 1550
6 Duke Electrical & Computer Engineering $179,140 100 98% 106 5% 1540
7 Columbia Computer Engineering $177,537 100 100% 21 4% 1540
8 Santa Clara Computer Hardware Engineering $171,545 100 98% 20 48% 1400
9 Santa Clara Electrical & Computer Engineering $171,545 100 97% 89 48% 1400
10 UCLA Computer Engineering $169,159 100 93% 87 9% —
11 Stanford Electrical Engineering $167,867 100 87% 53 4% 1550
12 U. of Pennsylvania Computer Engineering $155,827 100 — 11 5% 1540
13 U. of Pennsylvania Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering $153,550 100 100% 21 5% 1540
14 Stanford Management Science and Engineering $151,221 100 94% 69 4% 1550
15 U. of Pennsylvania Electrical Engineering $150,663 100 — 27 5% 1540
16 U. of Colorado Boulder Integrated Design Engineering $149,480 100 94% 39 71% 1340
17 U. of Wisconsin - Madison Computer Engineering $148,618 100 98% 82 41% 1450
18 Caltech Electrical Engineering $148,501 100 — 12 4% 1560
19 Ohio Applied Engineering $145,138 100 97% 39 72% 1190
20 Cornell Operations Research & Engineering $144,786 100 97% 73 8% 1520
21 Bucknell Computer Engineering $143,017 100 94% 35 32% 1270
22 Vanderbilt Electrical & Computer Engineering $141,811 99 — 24 5% 1540
23 Princeton Electrical & Computer Engineering $141,806 100 — 61 4% 1530
24 Rice Electrical & Computer Engineering $141,021 100 100% 43 8% 1540
25 U. of Maryland, College Park Computer Engineering $140,334 100 97% 88 45% 1470
26 U. of Southern California Electrical & Computer Engineering $138,474 99 — 53 11% 1510
27 U. of Virginia Computer Engineering $137,626 99 95% 55 13% 1470
28 Northwestern Computer Engineering $137,434 99 96% 26 7% 1540
29 U. of California, San Diego Computer Engineering $137,401 100 97% 208 29% —
30 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Computer Engineering $137,261 100 98% 458 37% 1460
31 Princeton Operations Research and Financial Engineering $137,160 99 90% 67 4% 1530
32 Columbia Industrial Engineering $136,930 99 — 11 4% 1540
33 Northwestern Industrial Engineering $135,860 99 100% 70 7% 1540
34 U. of Washington Electrical & Computer Engineering $135,812 100 95% 211 42% 1410
35 Northeastern Computer Engineering $134,758 99 96% 108 22% 1480
36 Northwestern Electrical Engineering $133,997 99 — 14 7% 1540
37 U. of California, Davis Computer Engineering $133,509 100 97% 102 46% —
38 Columbia Applied Physics $132,555 99 — 13 4% 1540
39 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Computer Engineering $132,138 100 97% 89 30% 1330
40 Georgia Tech Computer Engineering $131,437 100 98% 132 13% 1460
41 Rice Operations Research $131,390 99 — 13 8% 1540
42 Texas A&M University - College Station Petroleum Engineering $131,062 100 95% 76 52% 1280
43 MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics (Course 16) $130,795 99 94% 45 5% 1550
44 Boston University Computer Engineering $129,988 99 98% 103 13% 1470
45 Texas A&M University - College Station Chemical Engineering $129,746 99 97% 185 52% 1280
46 U. of Virginia Systems Engineering $129,664 99 100% 79 13% 1470
47 Yale Chemical Engineering $129,556 99 — 13 3% 1520
48 Stanford Aeronautics and Astronautics $129,532 99 94% 17 4% 1550
49 U. of Arkansas Computer Engineering $128,714 100 93% 28 75% 1130
50 Northwestern Biomedical Engineering $128,551 99 94% 56 7% 1540