2024 Best Software Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools
3
Colleges in the United States
16
Doctor's Degrees
Software Engineering is about average in terms of popularity for doctor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #397 out of the 862 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of software engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 16 doctor's degrees in software engineering to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Software Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of software engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to software engineering students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of software engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized software engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for software engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Software Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.