2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Wisconsin

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 93 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent electrical engineering programs, but they also 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin.

Top 2 Best Value Master’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

$118,210 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin list. UW - Madison is a public institution located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school has a large population, and it awarded 83 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison also took the #1 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Wisconsin - Madison are $25,523.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at UW - Madison

#2

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$21,690 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Marquette University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 10 degrees to qualified masters’s EE students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Marquette, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking. 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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