Ranked #31 in popularity, electrical engineering is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 272 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 15,613 bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great Electrical Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of electrical engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Earnings
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to electrical engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other electrical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt electrical engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
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 schools for electrical engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Electrical Engineering in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
University of California - Berkeley is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public university with a very large student population.
Those electrical engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from University of California - Berkeley make $59,788 more than the typical ee student.
Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering needs to look into Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering major at Massachusetts Institute of Technology make $39,838 above the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Carnegie Mellon University is a good choice for students interested in a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.
Electrical Engineering bachelor's degree recipients from Carnegie Mellon University earn a boost of approximately $61,830 above the average income of electrical engineering graduates.
Cornell University is a good option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.
Electrical Engineering bachelor's degree recipients from Cornell University receive an earnings boost of approximately $23,009 over the average earnings of electrical engineering graduates.
UT Austin is a very large public university located in the large city of Austin.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering degree program at The University of Texas at Austin make $19,490 above the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Electrical Engineering bachelor's degree recipients from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor get an earnings boost of approximately $10,099 above the typical income of electrical engineering graduates.
Texas A&M College Station is a very large public university located in the city of College Station.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering major at Texas A&M University - College Station make $5,882 more than the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.
Those electrical engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute earn $12,390 more than the average ee graduate.
Georgia Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.
Those electrical engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus receive $9,358 more than the standard ee grad.
Located in the city of La Jolla, UCSD is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering degree program at University of California - San Diego make $3,180 above the standard graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
UCLA is a very large public university located in the city of Los Angeles.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering major at University of California - Los Angeles make $7,862 above the standard college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign.
Those electrical engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign make $8,976 more than the typical ee grad.
Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.
Those electrical engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Maryland - College Park make $7,993 more than the standard ee graduate.
UW Seattle is a very large public university located in the large city of Seattle.
Those electrical engineering students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Washington - Seattle Campus receive $4,482 more than the average ee student.
Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a very large student population.
Electrical Engineering bachelor's degree recipients from Rutgers University - New Brunswick receive an earnings boost of approximately $5,091 above the typical income of electrical engineering graduates.
Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering program at Purdue University - Main Campus earn $6,793 more than the average graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
Notre Dame is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Notre Dame.
Bachelor's recipients from the electrical engineering degree program at University of Notre Dame make $8,354 above the typical graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
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Additional Award Winners
This section shows the rest of the schools awarded a Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools badge.
Showing in this list means the school was ranked in the top 20% of the 272 different United States electrical engineering schools we analyzed.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools award.
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).
Your choice of electrical engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
