Highest Job Growth Bachelor's Computer Science Programs

These are the highest job growth bachelor's computer science programs, ranked by projected career job growth. The ranking includes 50 programs, with University of California-Berkeley leading at 18.4%.

Rank Institution State Growth Completers
1 University of California-Berkeley CA 18.4% 994
2 Oregon State University OR 18.4% 877
3 University of Maryland-College Park MD 18.4% 873
4 Western Governors University UT 18.4% 840
5 Arizona State University Campus Immersion AZ 18.4% 708
6 University of California-Santa Cruz CA 18.4% 658
7 University of North Carolina at Charlotte NC 18.4% 644
8 Southern New Hampshire University NH 18.4% 631
9 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities MN 18.4% 612
10 Purdue University-Main Campus IN 18.4% 560
11 University of California-San Diego CA 18.4% 518
12 Cornell University NY 18.4% 507
13 University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA 18.4% 498
14 University of Washington-Seattle Campus WA 18.4% 495
15 University of Colorado Boulder CO 18.4% 483
16 University of California-Irvine CA 18.4% 467
17 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 18.4% 427
18 University of California-Davis CA 18.4% 411
19 Duke University NC 18.4% 410
20 Texas A&M University-College Station TX 18.4% 392
21 Columbia University in the City of New York NY 18.4% 391
22 Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA 18.4% 389
23 California State University-Fullerton CA 18.4% 371
24 Georgia State University GA 18.4% 357
25 University of California-Los Angeles CA 18.4% 340
26 University of Illinois Chicago IL 18.4% 337
27 University of Maryland-Baltimore County MD 18.4% 330
28 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL 18.4% 311
29 University of California-Riverside CA 18.4% 310
30 San Francisco State University CA 18.4% 307
31 California State University-Long Beach CA 18.4% 306
32 University of Southern California CA 18.4% 305
33 Boston University MA 18.4% 305
34 Stanford University CA 18.4% 293
35 CUNY Hunter College NY 18.4% 292
36 CUNY Queens College NY 18.4% 289
37 North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC 18.4% 287
38 Carnegie Mellon University PA 18.4% 270
39 California State University-Sacramento CA 18.4% 267
40 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona CA 18.4% 265
41 California State University-Northridge CA 18.4% 258
42 Stony Brook University NY 18.4% 256
43 University at Buffalo NY 18.4% 254
44 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY 18.4% 250
45 University of Georgia GA 18.4% 247
46 San Jose State University CA 18.4% 244
47 Brown University RI 18.4% 236
48 Texas State University TX 18.4% 226
49 University of Utah UT 18.4% 226
50 Kennesaw State University GA 18.4% 224

Methodology

Programs ranked by average projected job growth rate across related occupations (via CIP-SOC crosswalk). Only includes bachelor's programs with at least 10 completers and matched BLS occupation data. Data from the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook and College Scorecard.