Computer Engineering at Virginia State University

What traits are you looking for in a CE school? To help you decide if Virginia State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's CE program.

Virginia State is located in Petersburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 4,020. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students received a bachelor's degree in CE from Virginia State.

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.

Virginia State Computer Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in CE

Virginia State Computer Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the CE progam at Virginia State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The CE major at Virginia State 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 Focused Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	37
Most Focused Computer Engineering Schools	58
Most Popular Computer Engineering Schools	188

CE Student Demographics at Virginia State

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

Virginia State Computer Engineering Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 CE majors earned their bachelor's degree from Virginia State. Of these graduates, 73% were men and 27% were women. The typical CE bachelor's degree program is made up of only 19% women. So female students are more repesented at Virginia State since its program graduates 8% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 54% 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 Virginia State University with a bachelor's in CE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Virginia State 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

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 VA, the home state for Virginia State University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Software Applications Developers	38,110	$113,690
Systems Software Developers	27,800	$119,860
Computer Network Architects	9,700	$123,050
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,030	$164,300
Computer Hardware Engineers	1,340	$119,500

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 Kevin Coles under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.