2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Arkansas

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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 Arkansas, there were 162 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,281 and $20,978 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,270 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Arkansas” 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Arkansas”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Arkansas

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University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 overall quality in Arkansas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas landed the #1 spot on the list. UARK is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 25 masters’s EE degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Arkansas Electrical Engineering Report

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Arkansas Tech University
Russellville, Arkansas

#12 overall quality in Arkansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas Tech University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on EE Major in Arkansas. Located in Russellville, Arkansas, this medium-sized public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s EE students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Electrical Engineering at Arkansas Tech 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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