2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Computer Engineering in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on CE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 17,987 people earned their degree in computer engineering, making the major the 56th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, computer engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $73,143 and had an average of $24,685 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,801 computer engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,373 and $24,414 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 8 computer engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,810 and $18,681 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on CE Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in computer engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computer engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on CE Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on CE Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Computer Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

Amarillo College
Amarillo, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Amarillo College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on CE Major in the Southwest Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Amarillo, Texas, and it awarded 8 associates’s CE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Computer Engineering at Amarillo College

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Northern New Mexico College
Espanola, New Mexico

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northern New Mexico College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on CE Major in the Southwest Region. Northern New Mexico College is a small school located in Espanola, New Mexico that handed out 0 associates’s CE degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Northern New Mexico College Computer Engineering Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.