2024 Best Systems Engineering Schools in California
4Colleges in California
537Systems Engineering Degrees Awarded
$125,714Avg Early-Career Salary
Systems Engineering isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #160 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for systems engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 537 degrees in systems engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The systems engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Systems Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for systems engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Systems Engineering Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Systems Engineering in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the systems engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Southern California is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in systems engineering. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were about 28 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, systems engineering degree recipients usually make an average of $125,714 in their early careers.
Any student who is interested in systems engineering has to take a look at Loyola Marymount University. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 20th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 10 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Loyola Marymount in the most recent year we have data available.
University of California - San Diego is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in systems engineering. Located in the large city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UCSD is a great university overall.
There were about 36 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent year we have data available.
California State Polytechnic University - Pomona is a great decision for students interested in a degree in systems engineering. Located in the large suburb of Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 65th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 7 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cal Poly Pomona 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).
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