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. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 Illinois, there were 1,029 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,093 and $24,079 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 529 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 10 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois” 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is located in Edwardsville, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 53 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 238 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. Northern Illinois University is a fairly large public school situated in Dekalb, Illinois. It awarded 66 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s EE degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Illinois University Carbondale. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is located in Carbondale, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 32 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.
University of Illinois at Chicago landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois ranking. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this large public school handed out 81 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Bradley University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. Bradley is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Peoria, Illinois. It awarded 15 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.
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Northwestern University landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois ranking. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 15 degrees to qualified bachelors’s EE students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
With a ranking of #9, Western Illinois University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. Western Illinois University is located in Macomb, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s EE degrees to qualified students.
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Eastern Illinois University ranked #10 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Illinois list. Eastern Illinois University is a medium-sized school located in Charleston, Illinois that handed out 0 bachelors’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.
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