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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

27 Colleges
$29,638 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$139,530 Avg Salary

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

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

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 27 schools in the Southeast Region 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.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Top 10 Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools

Our analysis found Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus to be the best value school for electrical engineering students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Southeast Region . Located in the large city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.

Georgia Tech graduate students pay an average of $31,334 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Georgia Tech is ranked #4 for overall quality for EE in the Southeast Region .

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#2

Clemson University

Clemson, SC

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Clemson is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Clemson.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Clemson are $23,246 per year.

Clemson also claimed a spot on our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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#3

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Virginia Tech graduate students pay an average of $31,443 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Virginia Tech also did well on our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Out of the 27 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Virginia - Main Campus landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Virginia are $33,520 a year.

University of Virginia not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Florida - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. USF Tampa is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Tampa.

USF Tampa graduate students pay an average of $21,126 in tuition and fees each year.

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North Carolina State University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree electrical engineering programs. NC State is a very large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

NC State graduate students pay an average of $29,690 in tuition and fees each year.

NC State also claimed a spot on our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for electrical engineering students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. UNC Charlotte is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

UNC Charlotte graduate students pay an average of $21,147 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Electrical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte Report

#8

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

University of Florida ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. UF is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville.

UF graduate students pay an average of $30,130 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UF is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at University of Florida

North Carolina A & T State University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. NC A&T is a fairly large public school located in the city of Greensboro.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NC A&T are $20,738 a year.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at North Carolina A & T State University

With a ranking of #10, Florida Institute of Technology did quite well on this year’s best value schools for electrical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Florida Tech is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Melbourne.

Florida Tech graduate students pay an average of $22,588 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Electrical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology Report

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best electrical engineering schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 182
Florida 528
Georgia 444
North Carolina 388
Tennessee 62
Kentucky 41
Louisiana 12
Alabama 55
South Carolina 51
Mississippi 17
Arkansas 27
West Virginia 13

One of 39 majors within the area of study, electrical engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.

  • 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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