2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value EE Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Wisconsin, there were 477 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,960 and $25,767 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent electrical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin doctor’s degree ee students.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Wisconsin

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$25,523 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value EE Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s EE degrees to 30 students in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at UW - Madison

#2

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$21,690 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin list. Marquette is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It awarded 3 doctorate’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Marquette also made our “Best Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marquette University are $21,690, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Marquette Electrical Engineering Report

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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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