2024 Best Computer Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in computer engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #41 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for computer engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 140 bachelor's degrees in computer engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Computer Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of computer engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor'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 bachelor'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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Computer Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Computer Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Computer Engineering in Minnesota

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for computer engineering students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Minnesota Schools for a Bachelor's in CE

1

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN

72 Annual Graduates

$74,091 Median Starting Salary

$23,000 Median Student Debt

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. UMN Twin Cities is a very large public university located in the city of Minneapolis.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the ce program make about $74,091 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in computer engineering from University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

2

Saint Cloud State University
Saint Cloud, MN

22 Annual Graduates

$70,890 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

Saint Cloud State University is a great option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. Located in the city of Saint Cloud, St. Cloud State University is a public university with a large student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the ce program make around $70,890 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Saint Cloud State University

3

University of St Thomas Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN

12 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University of St Thomas Minnesota if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. UST MN is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.More information about a bachelor’s in computer engineering from University of St Thomas Minnesota

4

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, MN

15 Annual Graduates

Minnesota State University - Mankato is a great option for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in computer engineering. Minnesota State Mankato is a large public university located in the city of Mankato.More information about a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Minnesota State University - Mankato

Best Computer Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Computer Engineering Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	228	137
Iowa	197	378
Kansas	184	63
Nebraska	180	83
North Dakota	149	39
South Dakota	148	8

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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
General Computer Engineering	107
Software Engineering	33

Majors Similar to CE

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	477
Electrical Engineering	212
Chemical Engineering	159
Civil Engineering	152
Industrial Engineering	102
Biomedical Engineering	80
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	76
Materials Engineering	59
General Engineering	48
Agricultural Engineering	40

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.