Computer Engineering Option - Electrical Engineering BS

RIT’s Computer Engineering option in Electrical Engineering BS will provide skills to ensure devices such as laptops, smartphones, autonomous cars, and cardiac pacemakers function efficiently.


Overview for Computer Engineering Option - Electrical Engineering BS

Why Study Computer Engineering at RIT?


  • Advanced Electives: Gain a deep understanding of computer engineering as it relates to electrical engineering.

  • Senior Project: Work on an exciting design project that focuses on embedded systems.

  • STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduation.

Smartphones, laptops, autonomous cars, cardiac pacemakers, blood pressure monitors, and more. These devices all embed computing systems into electrical components. And these systems require an electrical engineer with an understanding of computer engineering to help make them function efficiently.

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Careers and Cooperative Education

Cooperative Education

What’s different about an RIT education? It’s the career experience you gain by completing cooperative education and internships with top companies in every single industry. You’ll earn more than a degree. You’ll gain real-world career experience that sets you apart.

Co-ops and internships take your knowledge and turn it into know-how. Your engineering co-ops will provide hands-on experience that enables you to apply your engineering knowledge in professional settings while you make valuable connections between classwork and real-world applications.

All engineering majors are required to complete four blocks (approximately 48 weeks) of cooperative education experience. For students in the clean and renewable energy option, your co-ops are expected to take place in companies that develop or design embedded systems, digital systems, electronics, or solid-state devices. A sampling of companies that hire RIT students in the computer engineering option for co-ops and for full-time employment include Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, Syracuse Research Corporation, Raytheon, Applied Physics Lab at John Hopkins University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Draper Labs, and many more.

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Admissions and Financial Aid

This program is STEM designated when studying on campus and full time.

This option is part of the electrical engineering BS. Please visit the degree program page for admission requirements.

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Financial Aid and Scholarships

100% of all incoming first-year and transfer students receive aid.

RIT’s personalized and comprehensive financial aid program includes scholarships, grants, loans, and campus employment programs. When all these are put to work, your actual cost may be much lower than the published estimated cost of attendance.
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