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

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 Master’s in Maryland” 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 Maryland, there were 586 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,700 and $23,409 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 252 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Maryland

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

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Maryland

#1

University of Maryland - College Park

College Park, Maryland

#2 in overall quality

$30,885 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$86,867 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. UMCP is a large school located in College Park, Maryland that handed out 112 masters’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

UMCP not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMCP are $30,885.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland - College Park

#2

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$59,425 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$104,264 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Johns Hopkins University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value EE Schools for a Master’s in Maryland. This large school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 134 masters’s EE degrees in 2019-2020.

Johns Hopkins not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Johns Hopkins are $59,425, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins 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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