2024 Best Electrical Engineering Master's Degree Schools
183
Colleges in the United States
8,248
Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in
electrical engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #23 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 183 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 8,248 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.
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.
- 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.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Electrical Engineering Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.