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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$27,730 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$139,530 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree School for You

Electrical Engineering is the #25 most popular major in Illinois with 500 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Illinois to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for EE students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for EE majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for electrical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public school with a very large student population.

UIUC graduate students pay an average of $17,823 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UIUC also took the #4 spot in our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois rankings.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. SIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Carbondale.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at SIUC are $16,162 per year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Illinois at Chicago. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. UIC is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Chicago.

UIC graduate students pay an average of $17,277 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#4

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

Out of the 5 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Northwestern is ranked #1 for overall quality for EE in Illinois.

Full Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University Report

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Illinois Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value electrical engineering schools in Illinois. Located in the large city of Chicago, Illinois Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Illinois Tech are $30,822 a year.

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Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 288
Ohio 434
Indiana 292
Wisconsin 141

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

Majors Similar to EE

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 5 schools only.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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