Bachelor's degree · Computer and information sciences · CIP 11.07
Computer Science: earnings and debt by college
The College Scorecard lists 742 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Computer Science, together awarding 46,143 of these degrees in the most recent year. At the median institution, graduates who received federal aid earn $73,662 one year after finishing and $108,553 five years after finishing (two separate graduating classes). The median institution's graduates leave with $21,500 in federal student loans.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.
Compare Computer Science programs on one chart
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Each dot is one institution's program; branch campuses share their institution's figures and appear as one dot. Dashed lines mark the median for all colleges. Showing 254 of 711; programs missing either value are left out (the Scorecard withholds figures for small programs).
Colleges with a bachelor's in Computer Science
| Western Governors University Salt Lake City · Private nonprofit | UT | 1,096 | $86,272 | n/a | $17,982 |
| University of Maryland-College Park College Park · Public | MD | 956 | $104,712 | n/a | $15,809 |
| Oregon State University Corvallis · Public | OR | 930 | $94,018 | $126,029 | $25,569 |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley · Public | CA | 890 | $161,143 | $228,465 | $13,750 |
| Southern New Hampshire University Manchester · Private nonprofit | NH | 887 | $73,429 | n/a | $31,000 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · Public | AZ | 701 | $85,706 | $126,276 | $18,731 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte · Public | NC | 666 | $70,140 | $103,976 | $19,500 |
| University of California-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz · Public | CA | 655 | $82,863 | $130,271 | $15,333 |
| University of California-Irvine Irvine · Public | CA | 608 | $98,883 | $138,326 | $14,437 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis · Public | MN | 601 | $83,653 | $118,260 | $18,750 |
| Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette · Public | IN | 532 | $98,322 | $148,856 | $16,750 |
| Cornell University Ithaca · Private nonprofit | NY | 527 | $151,551 | $239,085 | $12,500 |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle · Public | WA | 525 | $128,218 | $184,706 | $12,437 |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst · Public | MA | 462 | $96,878 | $145,149 | $21,375 |
| California State University-Fullerton Fullerton · Public | CA | 450 | $66,678 | $98,448 | $15,062 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York · Private nonprofit | NY | 449 | $135,612 | $222,515 | $15,313 |
| Duke University Durham · Private nonprofit | NC | 421 | $148,493 | $195,598 | $12,000 |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla · Public | CA | 415 | $109,047 | $173,619 | $14,085 |
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station · Public | TX | 407 | $97,008 | $134,139 | $17,364 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill · Public | NC | 404 | $94,151 | $137,579 | $12,500 |
| Georgia State University Atlanta · Public | GA | 391 | $76,531 | $112,526 | $19,000 |
| University of Colorado Boulder Boulder · Public | CO | 386 | $88,113 | $132,192 | $20,195 |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh · Public | NC | 373 | $90,903 | $123,373 | $19,250 |
| San Francisco State University San Francisco · Public | CA | 369 | $70,632 | $110,881 | $18,376 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge · Private nonprofit | MA | 366 | $171,815 | $203,879 | $10,000 |
| University of California-Davis Davis · Public | CA | 366 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign · Public | IL | 361 | $134,501 | $197,577 | $15,000 |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 352 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| University of Southern California Los Angeles · Private nonprofit | CA | 352 | $153,063 | $195,257 | $18,125 |
| Boston University Boston · Private nonprofit | MA | 351 | $98,587 | $148,275 | $19,000 |
| California State University-Sacramento Sacramento · Public | CA | 350 | $68,203 | $100,845 | $13,031 |
| Stanford University Stanford · Private nonprofit | CA | 341 | $157,763 | $236,767 | $12,000 |
| University of Illinois Chicago Chicago · Public | IL | 339 | $86,033 | $127,964 | $18,750 |
| California State University-Long Beach Long Beach · Public | CA | 335 | $72,641 | $107,571 | $14,990 |
| University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore · Public | MD | 324 | $83,058 | $120,938 | $17,500 |
| California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona · Public | CA | 323 | $72,708 | $116,498 | $15,000 |
| Stony Brook University Stony Brook · Public | NY | 311 | $90,866 | n/a | $15,500 |
| University at Buffalo Buffalo · Public | NY | 302 | $79,064 | $108,161 | $18,250 |
| University of California-Riverside Riverside · Public | CA | 301 | $73,293 | $119,813 | $16,242 |
| Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs Colorado Springs · Private for-profit | CO | 293 | $72,516 | $102,961 | $40,740 |
| CUNY Hunter College New York · Public | NY | 290 | $65,587 | $122,566 | $11,750 |
| Brown University Providence · Private nonprofit | RI | 287 | $141,816 | $234,845 | $15,000 |
| University of Georgia Athens · Public | GA | 284 | $86,330 | $120,190 | $19,500 |
| Colorado School of Mines Golden · Public | CO | 272 | $96,085 | $133,045 | $20,500 |
| Kennesaw State University Kennesaw · Public | GA | 261 | $75,247 | $106,234 | $22,524 |
| CUNY Queens College Queens · Public | NY | 260 | $71,589 | $120,363 | $9,338 |
| Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh · Private nonprofit | PA | 255 | $173,492 | $271,805 | $19,000 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester · Private nonprofit | MA | 255 | $95,966 | $156,418 | $26,224 |
| Texas State University San Marcos · Public | TX | 252 | $76,022 | $106,161 | $22,953 |
| University of Utah Salt Lake City · Public | UT | 244 | $96,677 | $145,687 | $20,475 |
Quick facts: Computer Science
- How many colleges offer a bachelor's degree in Computer Science?
- The College Scorecard lists 742 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Computer Science.
- How much do Computer Science graduates earn?
- Across institutions, the median of graduates' median earnings is $73,662 one year after graduation (351 institutions reporting) and $108,553 five years after graduation (299 institutions reporting). These figures cover graduates who received federal aid and are working and not enrolled in school. Branch campuses share their institution's figures, so each institution counts once.
- Where do Computer Science graduates earn the most five years after graduation?
- By reported median earnings five years after graduation: Carnegie Mellon University ($271,805), California Institute of Technology ($248,772), Cornell University ($239,085), Stanford University ($236,767), and Brown University ($234,845).
- How much student debt do Computer Science graduates have?
- The median institution's Computer Science graduates leave with $21,500 in federal student loans (331 institutions reporting). Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Which colleges award the most Computer Science degrees?
- By bachelor's degrees awarded in the most recent year: Western Governors University (1,096), University of Maryland-College Park (956), Oregon State University (930), University of California-Berkeley (890), and Southern New Hampshire University (887).
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How these numbers work
Figures cover bachelor's degree programs in Computer Science (CIP code 11.07), as reported in the College Scorecard. Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, measured one and five years after they finished, among those working and not enrolled in school; the one-year and five-year figures describe different graduating classes. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation. The Scorecard withholds figures for programs with few graduates, so many smaller programs show n/a. Summary figures are medians across institutions: the Scorecard reports program earnings and debt for a whole institution, so branch campuses share one figure and count once. All figures are from the Scorecard's most recent field-of-study release. More on the data.