2025 Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools

College Factual reviewed 69 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of electrical engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,178 doctor's degrees in electrical engineering during the <nil> academic year.

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• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Electrical Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

The ee doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality ee program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 - The number of electrical engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt electrical engineering students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 schools for electrical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Electrical Engineering in the United States

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.

13 Top Schools for a Doctorate in EE

1

Stanford University
Stanford, CA

72 Annual Graduates

Stanford University is a good decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Stanford is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Stanford.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University

2

University of California - Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

48 Annual Graduates

University of California - Berkeley is a great decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. UC Berkeley is a very large public university located in the city of Berkeley.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of California - Berkeley

3

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

40 Annual Graduates

Carnegie Mellon University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University

4

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

52 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in electrical engineering needs to check out Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

45 Annual Graduates

USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of Southern California

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University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

38 Annual Graduates

UMCP is a very large public university located in the suburb of College Park.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of Maryland - College Park

12

University of California - Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

37 Annual Graduates

Located in the large city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of California - Los Angeles

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX

32 Annual Graduates

Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University - College Station

Additional Noteworthy Schools

These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools award.

Electrical Engineering by Region

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Electrical Engineering Related Rankings by Major

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Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA. More about our data sources and methodologies.