Computer Programming at Yale University

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

Yale is located in New Haven, Connecticut and approximately 12,060 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,431 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 2021, 9 of them were computer programming majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Computer Programming section at the bottom of this page.

Yale Computer Programming Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Programming

Yale Computer Programming Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the programming progam at Yale compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The programming major at Yale is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Computer Programming. 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 Programming Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32

Programming Student Demographics at Yale

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the programming majors at Yale University.

Yale Computer Programming Bachelor’s Program

Of the 9 programming students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Yale, about 44% were men and 56% were women. The typical programming bachelor's degree program is made up of only 22% women. So female students are more repesented at Yale since its program graduates 33% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 30% more racial-ethnic minorities in its programming bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's in programming.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	2
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Computer Information Systems

Careers That Programming Grads May Go Into

A degree in programming can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CT, the home state for Yale University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Software Applications Developers	11,540	$105,500
Computer Programmers	4,110	$93,370
Systems Software Developers	3,560	$102,440
Web Developers	1,210	$78,200
Computer Network Support Specialists	970	$79,880

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 Jdbrandt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.