2024 Best Electrical Engineering Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
178EE Degrees Awarded
$70,484Avg Early-Career Salary
If you pursue a degree in electrical engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #39 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 178 degrees in electrical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of electrical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Electrical Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Electrical Engineering Schools in Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Electrical Engineering in Kentucky
The schools below may not offer all types of ee degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in electrical engineering needs to look into University of Kentucky. UK is a very large public university located in the city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #230 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were roughly 75 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, ee degree recipients typically earn an average of $67,465 at the beginning of their careers.
It's difficult to beat University of Louisville if you want to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Louisville, UofL is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 76 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the electrical engineering program at University of Louisville earn $5,652 above the standard graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
It is hard to beat Western Kentucky University if you want to pursue a degree in electrical engineering. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 27 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the ee program earn an average of $62,199 for their early career.
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).