2023 Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire

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 “Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire” 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 New Hampshire, there were 39 electrical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,027 and $27,000 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in electrical engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in electrical engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Electrical Engineering in New Hampshire

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, New Hampshire

#2 overall quality in New Hampshire

$42,868 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,111 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire. Durham, New Hampshire is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s EE degrees to 36 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UNH Electrical Engineering Report

2

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, New Hampshire

#3 overall quality in New Hampshire

$46,640 Average Early-Career Earnings

$28,070 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern New Hampshire University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended EE Major in New Hampshire. SNHU is a large school located in Manchester, New Hampshire that handed out 3 ’s EE degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Electrical Engineering at Southern New Hampshire 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA.