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Burton Memorial Tower, University of Michigan
Michigan
University of Michigan
Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
Main Building (UT Tower), The University of Texas at Austin
UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin

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Head to head

Computer science. Acceptance rate: share of applicants admitted, fall 2024.

15.6%MichiganLOWEST9%UCLA26.6%UT Austin

Acceptance rate

Share of applicants admitted, fall 2024

  • Michigan15.6%
  • UCLALowest9%
  • UT Austin26.6%

Pay five years after

Typical yearly pay of this school's bachelor's graduates in the field

  • Michigan$184,373
  • UCLAHighest$212,814
  • UT Austin$153,949

Tuition and fees, a year

Out-of-state rate at public schools. Pick your state for in-state, Out-of-state

  • Michigan$63,962
  • UCLA$53,331
  • UT AustinLowest$44,816

Average price after grants

A year, for students with federal aid. In-state at public schools

  • MichiganLowest$14,362
  • UCLA$14,659
  • UT Austin$18,554

Back for second year

Full-time first-year students who return

  • MichiganHighest97.5%
  • UCLA97.3%
  • UT Austin96.7%

Finish their degree

Within six years of starting

  • MichiganHighest93.2%
  • UCLA92.8%
  • UT Austin89.2%

Full cost of a year

Tuition, fees, room, food and books, before aid. In-state at public schools

  • Michigan$36,613
  • UCLA$41,373
  • UT AustinLowest$31,951

Undergraduate students

Degree-seeking undergraduates

  • Michigan34,177
  • UCLA33,475
  • UT AustinHighest42,855

Pay after

Typical yearly pay of everyone who started at each school with federal student aid, whatever they studied and whether or not they finished. The bar runs from the lower quarter to the upper quarter, ten years after starting.

Michigan

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Getting in

The middle half of students admitted in fall 2024 scored in these ranges. A quarter scored lower, a quarter higher.

Michigan
SAT (reading plus math, out of 1600)
1360 to 1530
ACT (out of 36)
31 to 34
Test scores, applying this year
Optional: send them if they help
UCLA
SAT (reading plus math, out of 1600)
Not used for admission
ACT (out of 36)
Not used for admission
Test scores, applying this year
Not used, even if you send them
UT Austin
SAT (reading plus math, out of 1600)
1250 to 1510
ACT (out of 36)
27 to 33
Test scores, applying this year
Required

If you don't get in

Schools that also teach computer science and admit at least 20 more out of every 100 applicants. Pay is five years after a bachelor's in this field there.

Instead of Michigan

Admits 16% of applicants

Instead of UCLA

Admits 9% of applicants

Instead of UT Austin

Admits 27% of applicants

Programs in computer science

Bachelor's degrees each school awards in this field, most graduates first. Pay is typical yearly pay five years after finishing; debt is the typical federal loan at graduation.

Michigan

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UCLA

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UT Austin

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What it adds up to

A rough price for one year, after the grants the average student at your family's income gets. Grants are gifts you don't pay back; loans are not taken off.

Michigan

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UCLA

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UT Austin

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The grants are each school's full cost of a year minus its average price after grants for students at that income, for first-year students with federal aid. Your own offer can be very different: every school has a net price calculator on its website for a personal estimate. Prices usually rise a little each year.

Debt and paying it back

Federal student loans only. Private loans and what parents borrow are not counted.

Typical debt at graduation

Federal loans owed by graduates who borrowed

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Monthly payment

To pay that off in ten years

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Students who borrow

Undergraduates with a federal loan this year

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Students with a Pell grant

The federal grant for students from low-income families

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Eight years after starting

What happened to every student who started at each school, full or part time, including those who transferred in.

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  • Got a degree or certificate here
  • Moved to another school
  • Still studying here
  • Left, not enrolled anywhere known

Living there

The same at each school whatever you study.

Where it is

The kind of place around the campus

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Room on campus

Beds in campus housing for every 100 undergraduates

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Room and food on campus

A year, before aid

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Students for each teacher

Undergraduates and graduate students, per full-time teacher

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Grants from the school itself

Full-time first-year students given one, and the average amount, 2022-23

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What kind of school

HBCU means a historically Black college or university

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Who studies there

Undergraduates, as each school reported them to the government.

Women

Share of undergraduates

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First in their family at college

Neither parent has a degree

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Part time

Share of undergraduates

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Aged 25 or older

Share of undergraduates

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Race and ethnicity

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Where they are

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  • UCLALos Angeles
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About these numbers

Almost every figure comes from the College Scorecard of the US Department of Education, the same year for every school: acceptance rates and SAT and ACT ranges for students who started in fall 2024, tuition and costs for a year, students coming back for second year, and students finishing within six years.

Pay is the typical yearly pay of a school's bachelor's graduates in that field five years after they finished, from federal tax records. Where too few graduates of a program can be counted, the government does not publish it, and neither do we.

Test policies are for students applying this year, read on each school's own admissions page on 23 October 2026 and linked beside the policy, with any condition the school sets shown in its own words; the 21 schools whose pages could not be read keep FairTest's list. What schools require (essays, letters, grades) comes from the federal admissions survey for fall 2023.

Tuition history, campus housing and the school's own grants come from IPEDS (the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System), the federal survey every college answers. Debt, price by family income, who studies there and what happened eight years on come from the College Scorecard.

Everything is grouped by broad field of study. A specific program can differ from its field. Check the university's own page before you apply.

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