2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Louisiana

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Electrical Engineering is the 30th most popular major in the country with 28,166 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Louisiana, there were 176 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 164 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,566 and $28,067 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their electrical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana”.

Top 5 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Louisiana

1

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

#17 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Orleans landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at UNO

2

Louisiana Tech University
Ruston, Louisiana

#10 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana. Located in Ruston, Louisiana, this fairly large public school awarded 35 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2020-2021.

Full Louisiana Tech University Electrical Engineering Report

3

Southern University and A & M College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#23 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern University and A & M College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana. Southern University and A & M College is a medium-sized school located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that handed out 10 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Southern University and A & M College

4

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

#2 overall quality in Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a public institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The school has a large population, and it awarded 54 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

5

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana

#5 overall quality in Louisiana

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisiana at Lafayette landed the #5 spot on the list. University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a fairly large school located in Lafayette, Louisiana that handed out 28 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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