Bachelor's · Los Angeles, California
Is Computer Engineering at University of California-Los Angeles worth it?
Medium confidence Medium confidence: 40–99 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back fast: graduates typically recover the cost in about 0.6 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- $148,148
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $245,657
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- $17,731
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $62k (likely $62k – $62k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $206k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in CA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 0.6 years (likely 0.5–0.7)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- $1.76M (likely $1.48M – $2.07M)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $4.16M (likely $3.47M – $4.89M)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 93%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Other majors at University of California-Los Angeles
- Business Administration, Management and Operations (Master's)$223,358
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Bachelor's)$216,722
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing (Doctoral)$190,499
- Physics (Doctoral)$178,137
- Law (First professional)$177,968
- Engineering, General (Master's)$177,858
- Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods (Master's)$177,710
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering (Master's)$174,798
- Computer and Information Sciences, General (Master's)$170,827
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering (Master's)$151,186
- Materials Engineering (Master's)$146,629
- Medicine (First professional)$143,434
Computer Engineering at other schools in California
- University of Southern California$166,369
- Santa Clara University$163,765
- University of California-San Diego$149,139
- California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo$148,950
- University of California-Davis$145,422
- University of California-Santa Barbara$144,703
- University of California-Irvine$132,357
- University of California-Santa Cruz$124,641
- San Diego State University$116,842
- University of California-Riverside$107,193