2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Rhode Island
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Rhode Island” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 25,951 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 30th most popular in the United States.
Across Rhode Island, there were 54 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,833 and $23,699 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Rhode Island” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in electrical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Rhode Island
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Rhode Island”.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Rhode Island
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Rhode Island list. University of Rhode Island is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s ee degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Rhode Island Electrical Engineering Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, Roger Williams University landed the #2 spot on the list. RWU is located in Bristol, Rhode Island and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s ee degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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