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2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee

8 Ranked Colleges
227 Degrees Awarded
$16,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee

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 Bachelor’s in Tennessee” 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 Tennessee, there were 314 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,475 and $21,240 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 227 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 8 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.

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 Tennessee

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students.

Top 8 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Tennessee

#1

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, Tennessee

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Tennessee Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Tennessee Technological University is a fairly large public school situated in Cookeville, Tennessee. It awarded 60 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Tennessee Tech University also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #3. The estimated yearly cost for Tennessee Technological University is $15,929 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree EE students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee list. Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this fairly large public school handed out 42 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

UT Chattanooga did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga is $12,952 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students.

Full UT Chattanooga Electrical Engineering Report

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #3 spot on the list. UT Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 49 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $18,825 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students per year to attend UT Knoxville.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at UT Knoxville

#4

University of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Memphis is a large public school situated in Memphis, Tennessee. It awarded 22 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students list, UofM has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Memphis is $13,248 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students.

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#5

Tennessee State University

Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee State University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee. Tennessee State University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Tennessee State University, the school also landed the #8 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Tennessee State University is $12,443 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree EE students.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Tennessee State University

#6

Christian Brothers University

Memphis, Tennessee
#6 in overall quality

Christian Brothers University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Memphis, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students list, Christian Brothers has also earned the #6 rank in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $11,900 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students per year to attend Christian Brothers.

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#7

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

Lipscomb University landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee ranking. Lipscomb University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 8 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb also took the #5 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Lipscomb is $24,749 for tennessee bachelor’s degree ee students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Lipscomb

#8

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

Vanderbilt University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value EE Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee list. Vanderbilt University is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.

Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $19,432 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree EE students per year to attend Vanderbilt University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University

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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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