Computer Engineering at Howard University

If you are interested in studying computer engineering, you may want to check out the program at Howard University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Howard is located in Washington, District of Columbia and has a total student population of 10,859. Of the 1,542 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 2021, 17 of them were computer engineering majors.

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

Howard Computer Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE

Howard Computer Engineering Rankings

The CE major at Howard is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer 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.

CE Student Demographics at Howard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the CE majors at Howard University.

Howard Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Program

The CE program at Howard awarded 17 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 47% of these degrees went to men with the other 53% going to women. The typical CE bachelor's degree program is made up of only 19% women. So female students are more repesented at Howard since its program graduates 34% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 50% more racial-ethnic minorities in its CE bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Howard University with a bachelor's in CE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	13
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Howard also has a doctoral program available in CE. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Electrical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Careers That CE Grads May Go Into

A degree in CE can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for DC, the home state for Howard University.

Occupation	Jobs in DC	Average Salary in DC
Systems Software Developers	2,690	$115,610
Software Applications Developers	2,520	$112,510
Architectural and Engineering Managers	1,360	$152,130
Computer Network Architects	1,010	$123,200
Computer Hardware Engineers	380	$126,770

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 Josh under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.