Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Chicago

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

UIC is located in Chicago, Illinois and approximately 33,518 students attend the school each year. Of the 5,247 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Illinois at Chicago in 2021, 60 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.

UIC Computer Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE

UIC Computer Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the CE progam at UIC 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 UIC 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
Most Popular Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	62
Best Value Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	143

How Much Do CE Graduates from UIC Make?

The median salary of CE students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIC is $67,853. 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 UIC

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

UIC Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Program

Of the 60 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from UIC in 2020-2021, 90% were men and 10% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 26% 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 University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor's in CE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	19
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	19
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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

Related Majors

• Engineering Physics
• Construction Engineering
• General Engineering
• Other Engineering
• Industrial 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Chicago.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Software Applications Developers	30,500	$96,610
Systems Software Developers	17,130	$108,570
Architectural and Engineering Managers	9,760	$136,270
Computer Network Architects	5,310	$114,780
Engineering Professors	1,330	$114,010

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 Hied5 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.