2025 Best Software Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
8Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
502Computer Software Engineering Degrees Awarded
A degree in software engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #167 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for software engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 502 degrees in software engineering annually.
The computer software engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Software Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for software engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The computer software engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Software Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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Best Schools for Software Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the computer software engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Computer Software Engineering
It is hard to beat Carnegie Mellon University if you wish to pursue a degree in software engineering. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Carnegie Mellon is a great university overall.
There were about 120 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Villanova University if you wish to pursue a degree in software engineering. Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #34 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Villanova is a great university overall.
There were roughly 14 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Villanova in the most recent data year.
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With a software engineering degree, you'll learn the fundamental concepts and principles – a systematic approach used to develop software on time, on budget and within specifications – throughout your online college classes at SNHU.
Rochester Institute of Technology is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in software engineering. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Rochester. This school ranks 13th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 106 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at RIT in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Stevens Institute of Technology if you wish to pursue a degree in software engineering. Stevens is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Hoboken. A Best Colleges rank of #78 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Stevens is a great school overall.
There were about 76 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Stevens in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Drexel is a great university overall.
There were about 57 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Lancaster, Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 22nd out of 103 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 15 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the remote town of Potsdam, Clarkson is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 29th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 10 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Clarkson in the most recent year we have data available.
Ship is a moderately-sized public university located in the fringe town of Shippensburg. This university ranks 45th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 32 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at Ship in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The computer software engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Software Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for software engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
