Schools with notable engineering and comp sci programs - grad rates and percent women

<p>graduation rates and percent women are for the entire school</p>

<p>sorted by graduation rate</p>

<p>source:IPEDS</p>

<p>school, number of eng and comp sci bachelors degrees, percent eng and CS, SAT 75th percentile, percent women, graduation rate</p>

<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology 578 51.2% 1560 35 93
Rice University 169 20.8% 1530 44 93
Cornell University 710 20.1% 1490 47 92
University of Virginia-Main Campus 406 11.9% 1430 55 92
Lafayette College 133 24.2% 1380 48 90
University of California-Berkeley 975 14.6% 1450 52 89
University of California-Los Angeles 542 7.6% 1410 54 89
Bucknell University 151 18.1% 1390 52 89
California Institute of Technology 99 40.1% 1570 29 89
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1073 19.1% 1420 48 87
United States Naval Academy 432 43.5% 1370 19 87
University of California-San Diego 931 17.8% 1370 50 86
Carnegie Mellon University 463 36.0% 1490 35 86
Lehigh University 376 32.8% 1390 43 86
Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus 1717 17.8% 1300 45 85
Harvey Mudd College 94 53.4% 1560 29 85
United States Military Academy 278 24.7% 1360 16 84
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 114 57.3% 1470 37 83
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1172 17.4% 1400 47 82
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 740 71.4% 1420 26 82
University of California-Davis 634 10.7% 1300 55 81
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 345 92.5% 1390 20 80
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1175 23.9% 1290 42 79
University of Florida 908 11.0% 1360 53 79
University of Maryland-College Park 901 14.3% 1390 49 79
University of California-Irvine 735 13.7% 1300 49 79
University of Wisconsin-Madison 692 10.8% 1370 52 78
Brigham Young University 646 9.4% 1350 48 78
Case Western Reserve University 311 40.2% 1430 47 78
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 1639 66.2% 1400 28 77
The University of Texas at Austin 1240 13.9% 1350 51 77
Texas A & M University 1066 13.1% 1290 47 77
United States Air Force Academy 359 40.7% 1358 18 77
University of Washington-Seattle Campus 766 10.9% 1320 52 75
Clemson University 536 18.1% 1310 46 75
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 490 76.4% 1390 25 75
Michigan State University 605 7.8% 1290 55 74
Rutgers University-New Brunswick/Piscataway 703 12.2% 1310 53 73
University of Pittsburgh-Main Campus 528 13.4% 1330 53 73
Stevens Institute of Technology 232 65.5% 1360 25 73
Virginia Military Institute 75 27.1% 1220 8 73
Maine Maritime Academy 77 45.3% 1130 17 72
Ohio State University-Main Campus 894 10.7% 1310 49 71
United States Merchant Marine Academy 86 42.6% #VALUE! 13 71
Massachusetts Maritime Academy 85 57.4% 1160 10 71
Purdue University-Main Campus 1456 24.2% 1250 41 70
North Carolina State University at Raleigh 1088 24.6% 1280 44 70
Clarkson University 330 49.3% 1280 26 70
United States Coast Guard Academy 104 49.3% 1350 28 69
Florida State University 465 6.7% 1250 56 68
Colorado School of Mines 438 83.3% 1340 25 68
Illinois Institute of Technology 249 66.9% 1370 33 68
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 1162 29.4% 1300 44 67
Iowa State University 929 20.1% 1350 44 66
University of Colorado at Boulder 517 8.9% 1280 47 66
Northeastern University 409 14.2% 1330 52 65
University of Missouri-Rolla 584 78.5% 1430 23 63
Auburn University Main Campus 533 13.2% 1230 49 63
Kettering University 400 94.3% 1290 17 63
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 771 12.2% 1360 53 61
Michigan Technological University 677 67.2% 1430 24 61
Rochester Institute of Technology 580 24.5% 1300 31 61
SUNY at Buffalo 478 12.8% 1240 48 61
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach 250 26.6% 1210 17 61
Drexel University 745 32.2% 1260 48 60
Oregon State University 592 17.7% 1200 47 60
Kansas State University 386 11.2% #VALUE! 51 59
University of Central Florida 640 7.9% 1250 55 58
SUNY Maritime College 76 50.0% 1140 12 58
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 450 10.3% 1300 52 57
University of Oklahoma Norman Campus 387 10.0% #VALUE! 49 57
Florida Institute of Technology 200 41.8% 1290 35 57
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott 93 28.4% 1250 17 57
Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus 674 9.1% 1220 50 56
University of Arizona 472 8.4% 1230 53 56
University of Maryland-Baltimore County 453 26.3% 1300 48 56
George Mason University 438 12.0% 1210 55 56
Milwaukee School of Engineering 272 69.6% 1330 18 55
New Jersey Institute of Technology 573 65.9% 1210 24 54
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 118 64.1% 1340 32 54
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 393 13.8% 1260 52 52
Tri-State University 70 35.0% 1170 32 52
University of Illinois at Chicago 386 12.1% #VALUE! 55 51
Polytechnic University 243 80.5% 1290 22 50
University of South Florida 407 6.7% 1180 60 49
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 625 18.1% 1150 44 48
Florida International University 434 8.5% 1180 57 48
University of Utah 393 8.0% 1260 46 46
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez 632 41.9% 1335 50 45
Lawrence Technological University 217 52.3% 1260 26 45
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 207 84.1% #VALUE! 30 44
San Jose State University 615 14.4% 1100 54 41
Montana Tech of the University of Montana 125 59.2% #VALUE! 42 38
West Virginia University Institute of Technology 115 42.1% 1100 42 33
Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico 339 87.4% #VALUE! 26 23</p>

<p>Okay, I'll bite, why percentage of women on campus?</p>

<p>One of the problems at Tech schools is a low percent women. It can be below 20%. It affects the environment on campus.</p>

<p>posting stats is nice, but there is a vital bit of info missing from what you post. What percentage of those entering college with a major in engineering or CS graduate with that major?</p>

<p>Nationally, between 1/2 and 2/3 of all those who start at most schools end up switching majors. The graduation rate from the info above is the graduation rate of students enrolled at the U, not whether those who started in engineering or CS finished their degree.</p>

<p>Good point, mikemac.
I think there is a very high percentage of students graduating FROM ENGINEERING at the top schools but the grad percent from eng falls off dramatically as selectivity decreases.</p>

<p>The overall graduation rate gives you some idea what the graduation rate from engineering might be.</p>

<p>At top schools, where the overall grad rate is say 92%, the grad rate from engineering might be only a couple of percent lower than the overall grad rate, say 90%. But, at a school with an overall graduation rate of 60%, the graduation rate from engineering might be 40%.</p>

<p>the more women the better. I am a guy :))</p>

<p>One thing to remember is that different engineering departments will have different percentages of women. At MIT, for example, materials engineering is 70% women, but computer science & engineering is only 24% (to take the two extremes).</p>

<p>Also, MIT undergrad engineering is 38.4% women, not 35%, as of this year. Sorry for being nitpicky, I am cribbing from the registrar's website and figured I might as well correct that statistic. The whole undergrad population is 45% women.</p>

<p>But in these stats he doesn't say the percentage of women engineers/CS majors (which would be useful for women looking at engineering programs), it's the percentage of the women taking classes somewhere on campus.</p>

<p>Smith. 100% graduation rate. 100% women. All graduates with 3.5 GPAs guaranteed admission to engineering graduate schools at Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Tufts, Notre Dame, and University of Michigan.</p>

<p>UCDAlum82 it would be very helpful if we could see the % of women majoring in engineering. Bucknell proudly claims that they have one of the highest % of women majoring in engineering at 27%!</p>

<p>As far as I can find out (and it's very hard to find these statistics) the % of women majoring in engineering is between 10 and 20%. Pitt claims that one half of their women who major in engineering choose biomed or chem E as their majors.</p>

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But in these stats he doesn't say the percentage of women engineers/CS majors (which would be useful for women looking at engineering programs), it's the percentage of the women taking classes somewhere on campus.

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<p>If that's what the stat is, then the MIT stat is waaaay off (45%, which has been about the %age of undergrad women at MIT for years, vs 35%), and it makes me trust these stats less.</p>

<p>The percent women is for the entire school, including graduate. For the entire school, the percent women at MIT is 35%. Undergrad is 45%.</p>

<p>Oh, that makes more sense, then. I'm not sure how useful a statistic it is, though.</p>

<p>(It's still a little low, but close enough that it could reasonably be year-to-year fluctuation.)</p>

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Smith. 100% graduation rate. 100% women. All graduates with 3.5 GPAs guaranteed admission to engineering graduate schools at Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Tufts, Notre Dame, and University of Michigan.

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<p>Uh, 100% graduation rate? According to the Department of Education, via the National Center for Educational Statistics, Smith College has only an 86% 6-year graduation rate.</p>

<p>College</a> Navigator - Smith College</p>

<p>(Click on the plus sign for the Retention/Graduation Rate section)</p>

<p>^according to us news, smith's grad rate is 85%.</p>

<p>northwestern has a pretty good engineering school and almost all disciplines are ranked in the top-20. the women % was 29% in 2002:</p>

<p>Engineering</a> Day for Young Women

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Twenty-nine percent of the undergraduates at McCormick are female, well above the national average of 20 percent. And the students stay to graduate: The class of 2001 had a retention rate of close to 95 percent for female engineers.</p>

<p>Career Day has been held at Northwestern annually since 1970, when only 4 percent of the students in the McCormick School were women. Today, nearly one-third of McCormick students are women, putting it at the head of the Big Ten’s engineering schools and among the nation’s leaders in the percentage of women it enrolls. McCormick also has one of the highest percentages of women faculty members among major engineering schools.

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Engineering program rank:14
Biomedical rank:11
Chemical rank:23
Civil rank:15
Computer rank:16
Electrical rank:13
Environmental rank:12
Industrial/Manufacturing rank:7
Materials rank:6
Mechanical rank:17</p>

<p>"Uh, 100% graduation rate? According to the Department of Education, via the National Center for Educational Statistics, Smith College has only an 86% 6-year graduation rate."</p>

<p>The engineering program has a 100% graduation rate (or did in their last round of graduates).</p>

<p>(But even the general number is misleading, so make sure you know what you are quoting:</p>

<p>"Graduation rates measure the percentage of entering students who complete their program in a certain time. We report an overall graduation rate that counts students as graduates if this is their first time in college, they study full time, and they complete their program within 150% of its normal time. For a four-year degree program, entering students who complete within six years are counted as graduates."</p>

<p>For more than 10% of Smith students - who are called Ada Comstock scholars - this is NOT their first time in college. They are older students - ages 26 to 70. There are engineers among them.)</p>

<p>Sam Lee-
Did I somehow exclude Northwestern from my list? Sorry about that. I will try to add it later.</p>

<p>Northwestern University 332 15.8% 1500 49 93</p>

<p>It has a relatively low percent engineering and comp sci for such a great engineering school.</p>

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The engineering program has a 100% graduation rate (or did in their last round of graduates).

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<p>May I have the data that shows this? Specifically, I would like to see data that shows that every single student that entered as an engineer in the particular round in question actually did graduate with an engineering degree.</p>

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For more than 10% of Smith students - who are called Ada Comstock scholars - this is NOT their first time in college. They are older students - ages 26 to 70. There are engineers among them

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<p>Uh, you never mentioned anything about any "Ada Comstock" Scholars in your previous post. You just made a blanket statement regarding all Smith students. Don't move the goalposts.</p>

<p>Should the University of Rochester be on this list?</p>