You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Carnegie Mellon University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Computer Software Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Carnegie Mellon is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s computer software engineering degrees to qualified students.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.