by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Electrical Engineering is the 39th most popular major in the country with 28,844 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 the New England region, there were 1,669 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,909 and $25,820 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 16 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in the New England Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in the New England Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bunker Hill Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in the New England Region. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 16 associates’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Merrimack College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on EE Major in the New England Region list. North Andover, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s EE degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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