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2023 Best Electrical Engineering Schools

210 Colleges
$74,380 Avg Salary
$24,114 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering School for You

Electrical Engineering is the #27 most popular major in the country with 11,021 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Electrical Engineering Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 210 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best programs for students.

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2023 Best Electrical Engineering Schools in the United States

Check out the EE programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.

Top 25 Top Schools in Electrical Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the United States for electrical engineering students. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge.

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#2

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

The excellent programs at Princeton University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best electrical engineering schools in the United States. Princeton is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Princeton.

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#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Electrical Engineering Schools list. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

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#4

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stanford University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Electrical Engineering Schools list. Stanford is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Stanford.

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#5

Rice University

Houston, TX

The excellent programs at Rice University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best electrical engineering schools in the United States. Located in the large city of Houston, Rice is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

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#6

Duke University

Durham, NC

Duke University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Electrical Engineering Schools list. Located in the city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

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#7

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Mellon University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best electrical engineering programs. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

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University of California - Berkeley ranked #8 on this year’s Best Electrical Engineering Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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#9

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best electrical engineering programs. Located in the city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

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#10

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

Cornell University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best electrical engineering programs. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

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The University of Texas at Austin came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Best Electrical Engineering Schools ranking. Located in the large city of Austin, UT Austin is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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#12

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN

University of Notre Dame came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Best Electrical Engineering Schools ranking. Located in the suburb of Notre Dame, Notre Dame is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

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With a ranking of #13, University of Southern California did quite well on this year’s best schools for electrical engineering students. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Los Angeles.

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With a ranking of #14, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology did quite well on this year’s best schools for electrical engineering students. Located in the city of Terre Haute, Rose - Hulman Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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#15

University of Virginia - Main Campus

Charlottesville, VA

University of Virginia - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best schools for electrical engineering students. It came in at #15 on the list. University of Virginia is a very large public school located in the suburb of Charlottesville.

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Washington University in St Louis landed the #16 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best electrical engineering programs. WUSTL is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.

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#17

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

With a ranking of #17, Johns Hopkins University did quite well on this year’s best schools for electrical engineering students. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Baltimore.

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Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus came in at #18 in this year’s edition of the Best Electrical Engineering Schools ranking. Georgia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.

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#19

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania came in at #19 in this year’s edition of the Best Electrical Engineering Schools ranking. Located in the city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

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#20

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

Purdue University - Main Campus landed the #20 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best electrical engineering programs. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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University of California - Los Angeles ranked #21 on this year’s Best Electrical Engineering Schools list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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University of Wisconsin - Madison landed the #22 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best electrical engineering programs. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked #23 on this year’s Best Electrical Engineering Schools list. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best schools for electrical engineering students. It came in at #24 on the list. UW Seattle is a very large public school located in the city of Seattle.

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With a ranking of #25, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor did quite well on this year’s best schools for electrical engineering students. Located in the city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public college with a fairly large student population.

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Rest of the Top Best Electrical Engineering Schools

#26

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA
#27

Tufts University

Medford, MA
#28

Villanova University

Villanova, PA
#29

University of Dayton

Dayton, OH

Additional Noteworthy Schools

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Electrical Engineering Schools award.

Rank College Location
32 University of California - San Diego La Jolla, CA
33 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI
34 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
35 University of Maryland - College Park College Park, MD
36 University of California - Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
37 San Jose State University San Jose, CA
38 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC
39 George Washington University Washington, DC
40 Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO
41 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI
42 University of St Thomas Minnesota Saint Paul, MN

Electrical Engineering by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Electrical Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252
General Engineering 3,548

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.

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