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Highest ROI Engineering Majors

Top 50 Engineering college majors by ROI percentile

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