Ranked #27 in popularity, electrical engineering is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 22 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Electrical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 1,432 master's degrees in electrical engineering to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great Electrical Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of electrical engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality ee program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on electrical engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other electrical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for electrical engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized electrical engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for electrical engineering students working on their master's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Electrical Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Any student who is interested in a master's degree in electrical engineering has to check out Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. Located in the large city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.
Those electrical engineering students who get their master's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus receive $13,412 more than the typical ee grad.
University of Florida is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the midsize city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a very large student population.
Those electrical engineering students who get their master's degree from University of Florida receive $11,787 more than the typical ee student.
UCF is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Orlando.
Electrical Engineering master's degree recipients from University of Central Florida receive an earnings boost of about $4,252 above the typical income of electrical engineering graduates.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).