Highest Job Growth Doctoral Computer Science Programs

These are the highest job growth doctoral computer science programs, ranked by projected career job growth. The ranking includes 50 programs, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology leading at 18.4%.

Rank	Institution	State	Growth	Completers
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MA	18.4%	68
2	University of Southern California	CA	18.4%	53
3	Stanford University	CA	18.4%	53
4	University of California-Berkeley	CA	18.4%	46
5	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	IL	18.4%	41
6	University of California-San Diego	CA	18.4%	38
7	Purdue University-Main Campus	IN	18.4%	38
8	University of Maryland-College Park	MD	18.4%	37
9	Princeton University	NJ	18.4%	30
10	University of Chicago	IL	18.4%	29
11	University of California-Los Angeles	CA	18.4%	28
12	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	MA	18.4%	28
13	Stony Brook University	NY	18.4%	27
14	Cornell University	NY	18.4%	26
15	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	NC	18.4%	26
16	University of Colorado Boulder	CO	18.4%	24
17	Columbia University in the City of New York	NY	18.4%	24
18	Arizona State University Campus Immersion	AZ	18.4%	23
19	Carnegie Mellon University	PA	18.4%	23
20	University of California-Irvine	CA	18.4%	22
21	University of California-Santa Barbara	CA	18.4%	22
22	Harvard University	MA	18.4%	19
23	University of Illinois Chicago	IL	18.4%	18
24	Boston University	MA	18.4%	18
25	CUNY Graduate School and University Center	NY	18.4%	18
26	Oregon State University	OR	18.4%	18
27	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities	MN	18.4%	17
28	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	NY	18.4%	17
29	University of California-Riverside	CA	18.4%	16
30	Iowa State University	IA	18.4%	16
31	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	NC	18.4%	16
32	Texas A&M University-College Station	TX	18.4%	16
33	Duke University	NC	18.4%	15
34	Brown University	RI	18.4%	15
35	Emory University	GA	18.4%	14
36	Georgia State University	GA	18.4%	14
37	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	18.4%	14
38	University of Rochester	NY	18.4%	14
39	University of Georgia	GA	18.4%	13
40	Washington University in St Louis	MO	18.4%	13
41	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	PA	18.4%	13
42	University of California-Santa Cruz	CA	18.4%	12
43	Illinois Institute of Technology	IL	18.4%	12
44	University of Nevada-Reno	NV	18.4%	12
45	Vanderbilt University	TN	18.4%	12
46	University of California-Davis	CA	18.4%	11
47	Northwestern University	IL	18.4%	11
48	Aspen University	AZ	18.4%	11
49	University of Maryland-Baltimore County	MD	18.4%	10
50	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	NE	18.4%	10

Methodology

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