2025 Best Computer Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

Computer Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #39 most popular master's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for computer engineering students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 master's degrees in computer engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to computer engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other computer engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt computer engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized computer engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for computer engineering students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Computer Engineering Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Computer Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Computer Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in computer engineering.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Master's in CE

1

Colorado State University - Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO

10 Annual Graduates

Colorado State University - Fort Collins is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in computer engineering. Located in the city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in computer engineering from Colorado State University - Fort Collins

2

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

43 Annual Graduates

$108,534 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a master's degree in computer engineering has to take a look at University of Utah. Located in the city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their master's from the ce program report average early career earnings of $108,534.

More information about a master’s in computer engineering from University of Utah

Best Computer Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best computer engineering schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	185	13
Utah	164	39
Idaho	96	1

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Rankings in Majors Related to CE

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Computer Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

CE Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Software Engineering	43
General Computer Engineering	23

Majors Similar to CE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	424
Mechanical Engineering	358
Civil Engineering	205
General Engineering	199
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	168
Systems Engineering	86
Biomedical Engineering	77
Chemical Engineering	72
Materials Engineering	48
Environmental Engineering	39

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.