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Software Engineering at Iowa State University

Software Engineering at Iowa State University

If you plan to study software engineering, take a look at what Iowa State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Iowa State is located in Ames, Iowa and has a total student population of 31,822.

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.

Iowa State Software Engineering Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering

Iowa State Software Engineering Rankings

The computer software engineering major at Iowa State 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 Iowa State

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

Iowa State Software Engineering Bachelor’s Program

15% Women
20% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 85% of computer software engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 15% went to women.

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About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in computer software engineering at Iowa State are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 15
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 7
White 111
International Students 8
Other Races/Ethnicities 15

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 IA, the home state for Iowa State University.

Occupation Jobs in IA Average Salary in IA
Software Applications Developers 6,990 $88,570
Systems Software Developers 2,650 $91,920
Architectural and Engineering Managers 2,120 $119,230
Engineering Professors 570 $116,060

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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