Software Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #167 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Utah to determine which ones were the best for software engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 95 degrees in software engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The computer software engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Software Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Software Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Software Engineering Schools in Utah ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the computer software engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's hard to beat Brigham Young University - Provo if you wish to pursue a degree in software engineering. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Provo. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were about 28 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in software engineering needs to take a look at University of Utah. U of U is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City. This university ranks 3rd out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 32 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent data year.
Utah Valley University is a great decision for students interested in a degree in software engineering. Located in the small city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 13 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were approximately 22 software engineering students who graduated with this degree at UVU in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The computer software engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Software Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Software Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
