Software Engineering at East Carolina University

Every software engineering school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the computer software engineering program at East Carolina University stacks up to those at other schools.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Software Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

ECU Software Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? ECU offers distance education options for computer software engineering at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

ECU Software Engineering Rankings

The computer software engineering major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Software Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Computer Software Engineering Student Demographics at ECU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the computer software engineering majors at East Carolina University.

ECU Software Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 86% of computer software engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 14% went to women.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in computer software engineering at ECU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its computer software engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a bachelor's in computer software engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

ECU Software Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of computer software engineering master's degrees went to men and 0% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a master's in computer software engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

Careers That Computer Software Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in computer software engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Software Applications Developers	30,580	$103,280
Systems Software Developers	7,070	$105,760
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,060	$140,980
Engineering Professors	1,400	$89,850

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.