If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in computer programming, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #129 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of computer programming. Combined, these schools handed out 364 bachelor's degrees in computer programming to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Computer Programming School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The programming bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on computer programming students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other computer programming students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for computer programming to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computer programming related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for computer programming students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Computer Programming Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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It is hard to beat DePaul University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer programming. Located in the large city of Chicago, DePaul is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Those computer programming students who get their bachelor's degree from DePaul University make $12,471 more than the typical programming graduate.
University of Michigan - Dearborn is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in computer programming. UM Dearborn is a medium-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Dearborn.
Bachelor's recipients from the computer programming major at University of Michigan - Dearborn make $21,067 above the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
University of Akron Main Campus is a large public university located in the midsize city of Akron.
Those computer programming students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Akron Main Campus receive $4,548 more than the typical programming grad.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
by our College Data Analytics Team
The programming bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
