The main focus area for this major is Electrical Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Electrical Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at University of California - San Diego. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in EE, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. UCSD was ranked #48 on College Factual's most recent list of the best schools for EE majors. This puts the bachelor's program at the school solidly in the top 15% of all colleges and universities in the country. It is also ranked #9 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for UCSD.
Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $11,442 | $41,196 |
Fees | $3,206 | $3,206 |
Books and Supplies | $1,124 | $1,124 |
On Campus Room and Board | $15,336 | $15,336 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $4,203 | $4,203 |
Learn more about UCSD tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. EE students who received their bachelor’s degree at UCSD took out an average of $20,000 in student loans. That is 15% lower than the national average of $23,573.
EE who receive their bachelor’s degree from UCSD make an average of $72,684 a year during the early days of their career. That is 10% higher than the national average of $66,265.
UCSD does not offer an online option for its EE bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UCSD Online Learning page.
Women made up around 17.0% of the EE students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 15.7%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 52.8% of the EE bachelor’s degrees at UCSD in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 36%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 56 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 22 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 30 |
International Students | 41 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 8 |
Electrical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Electrical Engineering | 159 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to electrical engineering.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 75 |
Biomedical Engineering | 92 |
Chemical Engineering | 105 |
Civil Engineering | 102 |
Computer Engineering | 124 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.