by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 28,844 people earned their degree in electrical engineering, making the major the 39th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, electrical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $74,380 and had an average of $24,114 in loans still to pay off.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 1,590 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,097 and $26,682 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,360 and $19,957 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their electrical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in Pennsylvania”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montgomery County Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in Pennsylvania. Located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified associates’s EE students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Scranton. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in Pennsylvania list. University of Scranton is a private not-for-profit institution located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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