Electrical Engineering at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying electrical engineering, you may want to check out the program at Purdue University - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 96 students received their master's degree in EE.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Electrical Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Purdue Electrical Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in EE
• Doctorate Degree in EE

Online Classes Are Available at Purdue

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Purdue offers distance education options for EE at the following degree levels:

Purdue Electrical Engineering Rankings

There were 80 students who received their doctoral degrees in EE, making the school the #2 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

EE Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the EE majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Electrical Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 96 EE students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from Purdue, about 70% were men and 30% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a master's in EE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	16
International Students	71
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Related Majors

• Nuclear Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Agricultural Engineering

Careers That EE Grads May Go Into

A degree in EE can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,120	$123,180
Electrical Engineers	3,210	$86,100
Electronics Engineers	2,380	$91,010
Engineers	2,380	$73,340

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.