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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$21,624 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$139,530 Avg Salary

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

Electrical Engineering is the #17 most popular major in North Carolina with 388 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in North Carolina 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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Charlotte the best value school in North Carolina for electrical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. UNC Charlotte is a fairly large public school located in the city of Charlotte.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNC Charlotte are $7,713 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means North Carolina State University is a great value for electrical engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. NC State is a very large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

NC State graduate students pay an average of $11,703 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

NC State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina A & T State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. NC A&T is a large public school located in the large city of Greensboro.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at NC A&T are $7,938 per year.

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

#4

Duke University

Durham, NC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. Duke is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Durham.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Duke are $59,141 a year.

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

Full Electrical Engineering at Duke University Report

Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 182
Florida 528
Georgia 444
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.

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 4 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.

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