2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Kentucky (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Electrical Engineering is the 31st most popular major in the country with 30,670 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $70,098 and had an average of $23,581 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kentucky, there were 172 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,233 and $23,100 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in electrical engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great electrical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky master’s degree ee students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Kentucky (With Aid)

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 9 masters’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at University of Kentucky

#2

University of Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$27,575 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$81,333 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisville. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid list. UofL is a large school located in Louisville, Kentucky that handed out 23 masters’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UofL also took the #1 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UofL are $27,575.

Full University of Louisville Electrical Engineering Report

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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