Best ROI: Computer and Information Sciences

Schools offering Computer and Information Sciences ranked by overall ROI score. The average graduate in this field earns $69,645 four years after graduation. These are the schools where this major delivers the strongest financial return.

50 schools ranked

#	School	ROI	Net Price	10yr Earnings	Median Debt	Completion	Tier
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	99	$20,111	$143,372	$14,768	96.4%	Exceptional
2	Stanford University Stanford, CA	99	$13,807	$124,080	$12,000	91.9%	Exceptional
3	University of Chicago Chicago, IL	98	$14,860	$91,885	$15,000	95.9%	Exceptional
4	Rice University Houston, TX	98	$13,370	$89,718	$11,000	94.6%	Exceptional
5	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	97	$13,481	$92,446	$13,000	92.8%	Exceptional
6	Yale University New Haven, CT	97	$23,777	$100,533	$12,975	95.7%	Exceptional
7	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA	97	$12,116	$102,772	$21,672	94.0%	Exceptional
8	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	97	$26,780	$99,980	$19,000	95.2%	Exceptional
9	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	97	$31,944	$114,862	$21,750	94.1%	Exceptional
10	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA	97	$28,699	$111,371	$15,715	96.5%	Exceptional
11	Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN	97	$15,846	$91,565	$14,000	93.5%	Exceptional
12	California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo, CA	96	$16,665	$90,768	$18,500	86.4%	Exceptional
13	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	96	$12,548	$82,511	$14,000	92.6%	Exceptional
14	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	96	$12,470	$84,943	$15,500	86.1%	Exceptional
15	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	96	$18,809	$87,555	$10,250	93.8%	Exceptional
16	Harvard University Cambridge, MA	96	$19,066	$101,817	$14,000	97.6%	Exceptional
17	Williams College Williamstown, MA	96	$17,716	$88,665	$12,761	93.6%	Exceptional
18	Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO	96	$21,786	$86,182	$17,500	94.3%	Exceptional
19	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	96	$21,590	$102,491	$21,500	96.1%	Exceptional
20	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	96	$28,690	$104,043	$14,000	95.4%	Exceptional
21	Duke University Durham, NC	96	$29,612	$97,800	$13,000	96.8%	Exceptional
22	Brown University Providence, RI	96	$25,184	$93,487	$11,428	95.7%	Exceptional
23	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	95	$14,741	$80,838	$13,000	85.7%	Exceptional
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	95	$13,138	$83,648	$19,500	93.2%	Exceptional
25	Dartmouth College Hanover, NH	95	$29,519	$97,434	$17,500	95.5%	Exceptional
26	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	95	$21,565	$86,863	$17,500	95.6%	Exceptional
27	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA	94	$16,075	$128,566	N/A	94.4%	Exceptional
28	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	94	$14,251	$80,735	$15,000	86.9%	Exceptional
29	Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO	94	$28,690	$97,335	$23,000	81.7%	Exceptional
30	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	94	$29,167	$89,363	$15,000	95.1%	Exceptional
31	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	94	$15,678	$82,860	$19,000	88.6%	Exceptional
32	Bentley University Waltham, MA	94	$37,930	$120,959	$25,023	86.8%	Exceptional
33	Wellesley College Wellesley, MA	94	$25,496	$84,803	$10,000	91.5%	Exceptional
34	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	94	$6,128	$110,066	$10,320	97.6%	Exceptional
35	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC	94	$11,655	$72,200	$14,000	91.2%	Exceptional
36	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	94	$15,564	$75,790	$11,069	81.0%	Exceptional
37	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	94	$14,091	$78,466	$14,615	85.2%	Exceptional
38	Georgetown University Washington, DC	93	$40,815	$103,494	$15,500	94.8%	Exceptional
39	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	93	$14,355	$81,054	$19,500	85.1%	Exceptional
40	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	93	$36,228	$102,051	$23,750	83.6%	Exceptional
41	Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA	93	$36,931	$105,584	$21,960	87.9%	Exceptional
42	Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA	92	$35,924	$138,687	$25,000	91.9%	Exceptional
43	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	92	$6,541	$71,588	$15,000	91.1%	Exceptional
44	Emory University Atlanta, GA	92	$22,585	$80,137	$18,250	91.1%	Exceptional
45	Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL	92	$18,425	$82,592	$25,000	75.2%	Exceptional
46	Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME	92	$14,398	$82,735	$18,500	95.3%	Exceptional
47	Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA	92	$41,704	$103,937	$19,000	90.8%	Exceptional
48	New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ	92	$16,504	$84,276	$21,000	72.8%	Exceptional
49	Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ	92	$41,346	$108,772	$27,000	86.9%	Exceptional
50	Colgate University Hamilton, NY	92	$28,786	$85,139	$15,000	91.2%	Exceptional

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