2025 Best Computer Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools

a doctor's degree in computer engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #60 out of 306 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 14 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for computer engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 392 doctor's degrees in computer engineering to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Computer Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of computer engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality ce program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor'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 engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other computer engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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 engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computer engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for computer engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The ce school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Computer Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Computer Engineering in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in computer engineering.

10 Top Schools for a Doctorate in CE

1

Northeastern University
Boston, MA

18 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Northeastern University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in computer engineering. Northeastern is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from Northeastern University

2

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI

37 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Michigan - Ann Arbor if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in computer engineering. U-M is a very large public university located in the city of Ann Arbor.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

3

University of California - Irvine
Irvine, CA

20 Annual Graduates

University of California - Irvine is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in computer engineering. UC Irvine is a very large public university located in the large city of Irvine.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from University of California - Irvine

4

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

12 Annual Graduates

University of Notre Dame is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in computer engineering. Located in the large suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from University of Notre Dame

5

University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the fringe town of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from University of Connecticut

6

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA

15 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from Virginia Tech

7

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

12 Annual Graduates

Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from Texas A&M University - College Station

8

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

14 Annual Graduates

Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Columbus.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from Ohio State University - Main Campus

9

University of California - Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA

10 Annual Graduates

UC Santa Cruz is a fairly large public university located in the city of Santa Cruz.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from University of California - Santa Cruz

10

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH

13 Annual Graduates

UC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Cincinnati.More information about a doctorate in computer engineering from University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

Computer Engineering by Region

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Computer Engineering Related Rankings by Major

Computer Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

CE Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Computer Engineering	362
Software Engineering	29
Computer Hardware Engineering	1

Majors Similar to CE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	2,178
Mechanical Engineering	1,842
Biomedical Engineering	1,361
Civil Engineering	1,240
Chemical Engineering	1,120
Materials Engineering	772
General Engineering	458
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	428
Industrial Engineering	346
Other Engineering	219

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.