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Best Colleges for Computer Science

Top computer science and software engineering programs ranked by graduate earnings, completion rates, and actual cost. Federal data. No paid rankings.

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These rankings filter to schools with computer science programs, then rank by our 5-component composite score using verified federal data. Rankings use a composite score: graduate earnings (28%), graduation rate (25%), social mobility via Pell Grant share (20%), debt burden (15%), and net cost for low-income students (12%). Where a school has not reported one of these, that component is dropped and the remaining weights are rescaled rather than filled in with an estimate. Only 4-year non-profit schools with sufficient data qualify.

→Earnings: Median annual earnings 10 years after enrollment. Source: College Scorecard.
→Graduation rate: Full-time first-time students completing within 150% of normal time. Source: IPEDS.
→Net price: Average annual cost after all grants and scholarships. Source: IPEDS.
→Social mobility: Share of students receiving Pell Grants, a direct measure of access for low-income students. Source: IPEDS.
→Debt burden: Median federal loan debt at graduation. Source: College Scorecard.

Top 10 Computer Science Schools (2026)

Ranked by composite: earnings, graduation rate, social mobility, debt, affordability.

#	School	Accept	Net Price/yr	Grad Rate	Earnings (10yr)
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	4.5%	$20,996	96%	$143,372
2	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	4.6%	$15,313	98%	$110,066
3	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	2.6%	$14,513	94%	$128,566
4	CUNY Bernard M Baruch College New York, NY	47.5%	$4,326	72%	$75,971
5	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	11%	$16,538	93%	$92,446
6	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	5.4%	$23,570	97%	$111,371
7	Brown University Providence, RI	5.4%	$26,256	96%	$93,487
8	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	3.6%	$17,525	98%	$101,817
9	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	8.8%	$26,361	95%	$104,043
10	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	41.8%	$17,270	86%	$80,838

500 schools with Computer Science programs in dataset. Top 10 shown. Data: IPEDS + College Scorecard. Updated annually.

All 500 Colleges in the Dataset

The ranking above shows the top 10 by composite score. Every school in the full dataset is listed here so you can explore beyond the top results.

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