San Antonio, TX (population: 1,402,013) has two computer engineering schools within its city limits. St Marys University, the highest ranked school in the city with a computer engineering program, has a total student population of 3,893. It is the 405th highest ranked school in the USA and the 12th highest in the state of Texas (#1 is Rice University). To learn more about computer engineering programs in San Antonio, ratemyprofessors.com has reviews of computer engineering professors at St Marys University such as Mehran Aminian, Vahid Emamian, Dave Hatch, Djaffer Ibaroudene, Wenbin Luo, and Rafael Moras.
Computer Engineering students from San Antonio schools who go on to become computer engineers, database administrators, computer and information scientists, computer support specialists, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 338,890 people working as network and computer systems administrators alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $70,930. Also, Computer programmers make on average $74,690 per year and there are about 367,880 of them employed in the US today. In fact, in the San Antonio area alone, there are 1,760 employed computer programmers earning an average salary of $72,740. Network and computer systems administrators in this area earn $59,410/yr and there are 2,520 employed.
San Antonio lies in Bexar county, which is one of the 154 counties in Texas. Overall, the San Antonio area has 837,030 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 0.9% unemployment rate, $18.25/hr average worker wage, and a $37,970 average annual salary. Thus, about 3.011 out of every 1000 jobs in San Antonio are held by network and computer systems administrators, and 2.100/1000 are held by computer programmers.
Of the 2 computer engineering schools in San Antonio, only 1 has a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, St Marys University comes out as the most expensive ($15,281/yr) for computer engineering students, with The University of Texas at San Antonio as the lowest, reported at only $9,518/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from San Antonio |
| Seguin | TX | - | 2 | 43.9208 | 52 | 33.7 miles |
| Kerrville | TX | - | 2 | 41.881 | 56 | 55.5 miles |
| Austin | TX | 792,778 | 27 | 18.4164 | 459 | 74.4 miles |
| Cedar Park | TX | 72,258 | 0 | - | 0 | 83.3 miles |
| Pflugerville | TX | 43,849 | 1 | 21.9644 | 4 | 86.3 miles |
| Georgetown | TX | 55,998 | 3 | 24.3873 | 208 | 95.8 miles |