Computer Engineering at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

If you plan to study computer engineering, take a look at what The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UT Rio Grande Valley is located in Edinburg, Texas and has a total student population of 32,441. Of the 4,926 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2021, 37 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.

UT Rio Grande Valley Computer Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE

UT Rio Grande Valley Computer Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the CE progam at UT Rio Grande Valley compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The CE major at UT Rio Grande Valley 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	228
	246

Earnings of UT Rio Grande Valley CE Graduates

The median salary of CE students who receive their bachelor's degree at UT Rio Grande Valley is $55,970. This is less than $70,001, which is the national average of all CE majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

CE Student Demographics at UT Rio Grande Valley

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the CE majors at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

UT Rio Grande Valley Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 89% of CE bachelor's degrees went to men and 11% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 51% 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 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley with a bachelor's in CE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	29
White	0
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Manufacturing Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Civil 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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Software Applications Developers	71,260	$108,760
Systems Software Developers	28,720	$110,740
Architectural and Engineering Managers	12,920	$167,280
Computer Network Architects	12,560	$119,340
Engineering Professors	3,890	$123,200

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.