Electrical / Electronic / Communications Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Students in communications-related programs may specialize in areas such as telecommunications, new media or wireless and mobile engineering. These are the top graduate schools for electrical / electronic / communications engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 5.0 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#2 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.9 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#3 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.8 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#4Tie | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4.7 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#4Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 4.7 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#6 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.6 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#7 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.5 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#8 | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 4.3 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#9Tie | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 4.2 | $43,000 per year (full-time) | 3,737 | 166 | $195,765,115 | ||||||
#9Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 4.2 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#11Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 4.1 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#11Tie | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 4.1 | $45,320 per year (full-time) | 615 | 167 | $62,990,633 | ||||||
#13Tie | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 3.9 | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 | ||||||
#13Tie | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | 3.9 | $12,684 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,786 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,187 | 166 | $96,988,104 | ||||||
#13Tie | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | 3.9 | $29,520 per year (full-time) | 5,497 | 166 | $192,117,384 | ||||||
#16Tie | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | 3.8 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,635 | 166 | $168,012,410 | ||||||
#16Tie | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 3.8 | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | ||||||
#18Tie | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.7 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#18Tie | University of Maryland—College Park (Clark) College Park, MD | 3.7 | $13,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,080 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,371 | 164 | $161,868,022 | ||||||
#18Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 3.7 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#18Tie | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 3.7 | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | ||||||
#22Tie | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX | 3.6 | $43,220 per year (full-time) | 949 | 166 | $69,614,390 | ||||||
#22Tie | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 3.6 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 3.6 | $12,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,396 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 721 | 165 | $106,551,188 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 3.6 | $16,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,120 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,923 | 164 | $122,194,826 |