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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$28,442 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$96,737 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Electrical Engineering is the #27 most popular major in the country with 11,021 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. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for EE majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Electrical Engineering

Our analysis found Michigan Technological University to be the best value school for electrical engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the remote town of Houghton, Michigan Tech is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Michigan Tech are $22,981 per year.

Michigan Tech also took the #2 spot in our Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

Full Electrical Engineering at Michigan Technological University Report

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great value for electrical engineering students working on their graduate certificate. UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Madison.

UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $25,501 in tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison also took the #5 spot in our Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Ohio University - Athens Campus helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value electrical engineering schools in the Great Lakes Region . OHIO Athens is a very large public school located in the distant town of Athens.

OHIO Athens graduate students pay an average of $17,712 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Dearborn landed the # 4 spot on the list. UM Dearborn is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Dearborn.

UM Dearborn graduate students pay an average of $25,552 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wright State University - Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the suburb of Dayton, Wright State University - Main Campus is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Wright State University - Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $24,286 in tuition and fees each year.

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.

U-M graduate students pay an average of $50,464 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, U-M is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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Best Electrical Engineering Colleges by State

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 288
Illinois 500
Ohio 434
Indiana 292
Wisconsin 141

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 6 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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