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2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey

7 Ranked Colleges
508 Degrees Awarded
$22,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor's in New Jersey

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Bachelor’s in New Jersey” 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 New Jersey, there were 839 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,220 and $25,972 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 508 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,288 and $24,807 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality electrical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey.

Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in New Jersey

#1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey. Located in New Brunswick, New Jersey, this large public school handed out 265 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students list, Rutgers New Brunswick has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rutgers New Brunswick is $21,654 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree EE students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Rutgers New Brunswick

#2

The College of New Jersey

Ewing, New Jersey

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, The College of New Jersey landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Ewing, New Jersey, this medium-sized public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

TCNJ did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. It costs about $27,541 for new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students per year to attend TCNJ.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full TCNJ Electrical Engineering Report

#3

Rowan University

Glassboro, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rowan University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey list. Rowan University is a fairly large school located in Glassboro, New Jersey that handed out 66 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students list, Rowan has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rowan University is $25,454 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree EE students.

Full Rowan University Electrical Engineering Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey list. NJIT is a fairly large school located in Newark, New Jersey that handed out 86 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

NJIT not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. It costs about $19,706 for new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students per year to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 4.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full New Jersey Institute of Technology Electrical Engineering Report

#5

Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Princeton University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey list. Located in Princeton, New Jersey, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 21 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students list, Princeton has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Princeton is $11,317 for new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Princeton University

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus did quite well in the 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey ranking, coming in at #6. Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus is located in Teaneck, New Jersey and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.

FDU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. It costs about $15,147 for New Jersey Bachelor’s Degree EE students per year to attend Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at FDU

#7

Stevens Institute of Technology

Hoboken, New Jersey

Stevens Institute of Technology did quite well in the 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in New Jersey ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Hoboken, New Jersey, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 33 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students list, Stevens has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” ranking. It costs about $37,588 for new jersey bachelor’s degree ee students per year to attend Stevens.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Stevens

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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

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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