Electrical / Electronic / Communications Engineering
Ranked in 2013, 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.
| Rankings | Overall Engineering School Program Data | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Additional data |
| #5 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA |
4.5 | $10,584 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,860 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 4,651 |
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| #14 |
University of Southern California (Viterbi)
Los Angeles, CA |
3.8 | $28,242 per year (full-time) | 4,398 | |
| #1 |
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
4.9 | $43,950 per year (full-time) | 3,548 | |
| #19 |
Johns Hopkins University (Whiting)
Baltimore, MD |
3.6 | $43,930 per year (full-time) | 3,434 | |
| #7 |
University of Michigan‒Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI |
4.3 | $22,518 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,184 | |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA |
4.9 | $41,770 per year (full-time) | 3,163 | |
| #10 |
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) | 3,070 | |
| #3 |
University of Illinois‒Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL |
4.7 | $16,352 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,618 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,975 | |
| #34 |
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL |
3.2 | $12,589 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,983 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,967 | |
| #32 |
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC |
3.3 | $6,883 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,931 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,918 | |
| #19 |
Texas A&M University‒College Station (Look)
College Station, TX |
3.6 | $277 per credit (in-state, full-time); $577 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,918 | |
| #7 |
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA |
4.3 | $38,900 per year (full-time) | 2,857 | |
| #30 |
Arizona State University (Fulton)
Tempe, AZ |
3.4 | $10,001 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,549 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,692 | |
| #19 |
Columbia University (Fu Foundation)
New York, NY |
3.6 | $47,340 per year (full-time) | 2,525 | |
| #11 |
University of Texas‒Austin (Cockrell)
Austin, TX |
4.1 | $9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,425 | |
| #44 |
Northeastern University
Boston, MA |
2.9 | $1,270 per credit (full-time) | 2,295 | |
| #19 |
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA |
3.6 | $10,677 per year (in-state, full-time); $20,926 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,278 | |
| #14 |
University of Maryland‒College Park (Clark)
College Park, MD |
3.8 | $11,020 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,760 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,254 | |
| #60 |
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Brooklyn, NY |
2.6 | $1,304 per credit (full-time) | 2,114 | |
| #26 |
University of Washington
Seattle, WA |
3.5 | $13,930 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,790 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,030 | |
| #19 |
University of Minnesota‒Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN |
3.6 | $14,570 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,320 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,920 | |
| #14 |
University of Wisconsin‒Madison
Madison, WI |
3.8 | $11,839 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,166 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,903 | |
| #26 |
Pennsylvania State University‒University Park
University Park, PA |
3.5 | $18,672 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,512 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,863 | |
| #3 |
University of California‒Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
4.7 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,837 | |
| #60 |
University of Texas‒Dallas (Jonsson)
Richardson, TX |
2.6 | $11,940 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,606 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,809 | |
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