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Most Popular Schools for Computer Science Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on computer theory, computing problems and solutions, and the design of computer systems and user interfaces from a scientific perspective. Includes instruction in the principles of computational science, computer development and programming, and applications to a variety of end-use situations.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Southern California 1,074 7% $74,825
2 University of California-San Diego 786 9% $32,838
3 Arizona State University-Tempe 628 5% $28,048
4 Oregon State University 626 9% $26,892
5 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 624 9% $23,694
6 Columbia University in the City of New York 600 5% $76,856
7 Stanford University 595 14% $71,587
8 University of California-Irvine 588 7% $34,261
9 Cornell University 556 9% $73,904
10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 551 19% $70,240
11 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 550 5% $30,102
12 University of California-Berkeley 549 5% $38,066
13 University of California-Santa Cruz 532 11% $36,217
14 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 474 6% $23,977
15 University of Illinois at Springfield 469 30% $25,473
16 University of Central Missouri 406 12% $19,953
17 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 395 3% $27,898
18 Illinois Institute of Technology 392 18% $65,386
19 Maharishi University of Management 391 72% $28,730
20 Purdue University-Main Campus 383 4% $22,822
21 Stevens Institute of Technology 371 13% $69,292
22 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 350 4% $30,913
23 University of California-Davis 345 4% $35,177
24 University of Colorado Boulder 342 5% $31,044
25 University of California-Los Angeles 322 3% $34,620
26 California State University-Fullerton 285 3% $27,738
27 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 283 2% $27,638
28 Rochester Institute of Technology 280 7% $57,401
29 Georgia State University 275 4% $26,014
30 Binghamton University 273 6% $26,866
31 California State University-Long Beach 272 3% $24,738
32 San Jose State University 272 3% $29,193
33 Boston University 265 3% $72,618
34 Texas A & M University-College Station 262 2% $29,506
35 Indiana University-Bloomington 256 2% $24,779
36 Kennesaw State University 247 4% $25,773
37 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 246 13% $71,998
38 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 246 4% $28,891
39 Texas State University 241 3% $23,130
40 San Diego State University 237 2% $29,318
41 George Washington University 235 3% $71,930
42 Northern Illinois University 232 5% $29,117
43 California State University-East Bay 230 4% $25,143
44 University of Missouri-Kansas City 228 8% $24,116
45 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 228 3% $23,811
46 Carnegie Mellon University 223 5% $72,283
47 Brown University 222 9% $73,802
48 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 215 6% $28,058
49 University of Arizona 214 2% $29,217
50 University of Georgia 212 2% $26,688
51 DePaul University 211 3% $57,678
52 Northern Virginia Community College 207 3% $7,410
53 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 200 4% $28,302
54 Weber State University 193 4% $20,511
55 University of Utah 191 2% $24,472
56 University of Illinois at Chicago 191 3% $30,866
57 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 190 11% $67,504
58 California State University-Sacramento 189 2% $26,454
59 Duke University 188 4% $74,339
60 University of Chicago 188 4% $78,555
61 San Francisco State University 180 2% $27,480
62 University at Buffalo 180 2% $27,758
63 Chicago State University 178 24% $24,587
64 Washington University in St Louis 176 4% $74,361
65 Harvard University 176 3% $71,650
66 Pace University 175 5% $66,499
67 University of Washington-Bothell Campus 174 9% $27,704
68 Governors State University 173 12% $25,092
69 University of California-Riverside 172 3% $35,242
70 Tufts University 171 6% $73,500
71 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 170 2% $33,503
72 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 164 4% $30,552
73 University of Bridgeport 164 9% $55,583
74 Brigham Young University-Provo 162 2% $18,776
75 Towson University 161 3% $26,834
76 Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus 160 9% $58,188
77 California State University-Northridge 159 2% $22,969
78 University of California-Santa Barbara 158 3% $36,659
79 Northwestern University 156 2% $74,649
80 California State University-Los Angeles 154 2% $26,139
81 Northwest Missouri State University 153 11% $19,751
82 Portland State University 149 2% $26,085
83 Washington State University 147 2% $27,484
84 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 143 2% $28,776
85 University of Houston-Clear Lake 141 6% $23,276
86 CUNY Queens College 136 4% $28,907
87 California State University-San Marcos 135 4% $25,325
88 University of Rochester 134 4% $72,721
89 Kent State University at Kent 133 2% $25,886
90 California State University-Monterey Bay 131 6% $23,564
91 CUNY LaGuardia Community College 128 4% $6,734
92 Iowa State University 127 2% $21,186
93 Drexel University 123 2% $70,223
94 Saint Martin's University 119 23% $52,802
95 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 118 2% $30,360
96 Colorado Technical University-Colorado Springs 118 2% $13,374
97 Brandeis University 115 6% $73,335
98 Dartmouth College 113 6% $74,359
99 Lehigh University 111 6% $68,595
100 University of Pennsylvania 111 2% $74,408

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Computer Science program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.