Best Software Engineering Colleges Acceptance Rates and Admission Statistics

The average acceptance rate of Best Software Engineering Colleges is 22.03%, a total of 75,100 applicants applied to the schools and 16,586 accepted.

University of California-Los Angeles had the most number of applicants of 146,272 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology had the least number of applicants of 28,232 among Best Software Engineering Colleges.

Stanford University had the lowest acceptance rate of 3.61% and Purdue University-Main Campus had the highest rate of 49.87%.

Table. Best Software Engineering Colleges Acceptance Rates and Admission Comparison
RankSchool ApplicantsAdmittedEnrolledAcceptance RateYield
1Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA33,9413,9591,80811.66%45.67%
2University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL73,74231,2479,00842.37%28.83%
3Georgia Institute of Technology-Main CampusAtlanta, GA59,7898,4133,83614.07%45.60%
4Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA28,2321,2841,1024.55%85.83%
5Stanford UniversityStanford, CA57,3262,0671,6933.61%81.91%
6University of California-BerkeleyBerkeley, CA124,24213,6396,27210.98%45.99%
7University of Washington-Seattle CampusSeattle, WA69,16627,0767,19639.15%26.58%
8Purdue University-Main CampusWest Lafayette, IN78,74539,27211,46749.87%29.20%
9University of California-IrvineIrvine, CA122,69935,0546,73628.57%19.22%
10University of California-Los AngelesLos Angeles, CA146,27213,1146,6108.97%50.40%
11Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY62,9935,5163,5258.76%63.91%
12North Carolina State University at RaleighRaleigh, NC44,04718,3855,83941.74%31.76%
-Average75,10016,5865,42422%46%