Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and approximately 52,679 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 422 students received a bachelor's degree in CE from UIUC.

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.

UIUC Computer Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE

UIUC Computer Engineering Rankings

The CE major at UIUC 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.

Earnings of UIUC CE Graduates

The median salary of CE students who receive their bachelor's degree at UIUC is $88,455. This is 26% higher than $70,001, which is the national average for all CE bachelor's degree recipients.

CE Student Demographics at UIUC

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

UIUC Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 422 CE majors earned their bachelor's degree from UIUC. Of these graduates, 88% were men and 12% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in CE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	149
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	18
White	82
International Students	156
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

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

Related Majors

• General Engineering
• Engineering Mechanics
• Nuclear Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Operations Research

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 Urbana-Champaign.

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 Beyond My ken under License

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