Top Ranked Programs
Drexel University's program mix is anchored in Business, engineering, and health-related fields — a portfolio shaped by the university's cooperative-education model and its location in Philadelphia's dense employer market. Business accounts for 25% of graduates, Engineering accounts for 17%, and Arts accounts for 9%, giving the institution a distinctly applied-professional orientation. Across 57 programs serving roughly 3,786 students annually, 41 meet Azimuth's ranking threshold. Nursing is the program that combines the largest cohort scale with strong earnings, making it a central driver of the institution's overall financial profile. The highest four-year earnings belong to Computer Science, where 168 graduates earn median earnings of $113,610 four years after enrollment — Azimuth ranks the program #137 nationally for median earnings four years after enrollment nonprofit four-year institutions. Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods follows with 206 graduates earning $104,599, and Azimuth ranks Biomedical/Medical Engineering #24 nationally for median earnings four years after enrollment nonprofit four-year institutions, with 100 graduates earning $101,362. Among the largest programs by cohort, Nursing program graduates 581 students with median earnings of $100,646, and the The Accounting program graduates 299 students with median earnings of $100,317. Azimuth ranks Nursing #111 nationally for median earnings four years after enrollment nonprofit four-year institutions, [per the program-ranking methodology](/analysis/college-program-rankings-how-to-actually-evaluate-programs/). Several of Drexel University's strongest programs are high-mobility pathways where graduates enter the workforce directly — particularly in engineering, computing, and business fields where Drexel's co-op structure gives students employer exposure before graduation. Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods, with 206 graduates earning $104,599, and Mechanical Engineering, with 184 graduates earning $93,638, represent applied fields where four-year earnings reflect real labor-market outcomes. Health-related programs such as Design and Applied Arts (169 graduates, $66,294 in median earnings) may include a mix of direct-to-workforce and grad-school-dependent pathways depending on specialization. The [supply-demand map](/analysis/supply-demand-map-college-degrees/) provides context for how these program families align with national wage trends and employer demand. ```