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2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Jersey

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$30,247 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$77,121 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering School for You

With 319 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, electrical engineering is the #22 most popular major in New Jersey.

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.

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 Schools in New Jersey ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in New Jersey to see which 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 Schools in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges.

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality in Electrical Engineering

$15,804 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Rutgers University - New Brunswick the best value school in New Jersey for electrical engineering students. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Rutgers New Brunswick are $15,804 per year.

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$18,016 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Jersey list. Located in the city of Newark, NJIT is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NJIT are $18,016 a year.

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#3

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ
$56,010 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Princeton University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Princeton, Princeton is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

Princeton undergraduate students pay an average of $56,010 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Princeton also made our Best Electrical Engineering Schools in New Jersey list, coming in at #1.

Full Electrical Engineering at Princeton University Report

$56,920 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevens Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools in New Jersey list. Located in the large suburb of Hoboken, Stevens is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Stevens are $56,920 per year.

Stevens not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Electrical Engineering Schools in New Jersey list.

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Best Value Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 844
Pennsylvania 725
Maryland 338
District of Columbia 95
Delaware 0

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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