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Electrical Engineering

Shockingly Elite

The absolute pinnacle of Electrical & Computer Engineering. They treat Maxwell's equations as light bedside reading, and if the modern world relies on a circuit, a graduate from one of these programs probably designed it.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 MIT
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA — 5% — — — — — —
2 Stanford
Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, CA 40 4% 70% / 30% 8% $187,527 100 87% —
3 U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL 235 37% 82% / 18% 40% $103,028 97 95% —
4 Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 151 13% 83% / 17% 11% $109,110 98 100% —
5 U. of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Berkeley, CA — 11% — — — — — —
6 U. of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
Ann Arbor, MI 100 16% 81% / 19% 7% $109,107 96 99% —
7 Carnegie Mellon
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA — 11% — — — — — —
8 Cornell
Ithaca, NY
Ithaca, NY — 8% — — — — — —

Dangerously Grounded

Giant public powerhouses where the power systems labs look like supervillain lairs. They pump out enough battle-hardened graduates to single-handedly staff every utility company and semiconductor fab on Earth.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 U. of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
Austin, TX — 22% — — — — — —
2 Purdue
West Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette, IN 211 43% 83% / 17% 26% $95,734 96 97% —
3 UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA 146 9% 82% / 18% 14% $127,528 99 96% —
4 U. of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla, CA 178 29% 85% / 15% 13% $120,314 99 94% —
5 U. of Washington
Seattle, WA
Seattle, WA — 42% — — — — — —
6 U. of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI
Madison, WI 90 41% 76% / 24% 21% $93,494 93 93% —
7 U. of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
College Park, MD 99 45% 88% / 12% 3% $108,058 98 94% —
8 Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, TX
College Station, TX 319 52% 86% / 14% 4% $107,294 98 100% —
9 Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
Blacksburg, VA 107 55% 85% / 15% 17% $103,147 98 84% —
10 Ohio State
Columbus, OH
Columbus, OH 244 49% 88% / 12% 9% $101,785 96 94% —
11 Pennsylvania State
University Park, PA
University Park, PA 133 55% 92% / 8% 23% $93,111 94 97% —

Ohm My God

Elite institutions where EE is basically treated as math. They can easily derive a Fourier transform in their sleep, but they might call a professional electrician if asked to change a lightbulb.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Caltech
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena, CA 13 4% 85% / 15% 8% $167,461 100 — —
2 Princeton
Princeton, NJ
Princeton, NJ — 4% — — — — — —
3 Columbia
New York, NY
New York, NY 24 4% 71% / 29% 21% $112,032 97 88% —
4 U. of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA — 12% — — — — — —
5 U. of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia, PA 18 5% 61% / 39% 11% $144,309 100 — —
6 Harvard
Cambridge, MA
Cambridge, MA 10 3% 60% / 40% 30% $130,440 99 — —
7 Northwestern
Evanston, IL
Evanston, IL 21 7% 76% / 24% 10% $127,286 99 — —
8 Johns Hopkins
Baltimore, MD
Baltimore, MD 17 6% 65% / 35% 18% $125,172 99 95% —
9 Rice
Houston, TX
Houston, TX — 8% — — — — — —
10 Duke
Durham, NC
Durham, NC — 5% — — — — — —
11 Yale
New Haven, CT
New Haven, CT 14 4% 86% / 14% 14% $139,087 99 — —
12 Brown
Providence, RI
Providence, RI — 5% — — — — — —
13 U. of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Notre Dame, IN 45 9% 73% / 27% 0% $114,810 97 97% —
14 Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Saint Louis, MO 25 12% 64% / 36% 20% $116,423 97 — —
15 New York University
New York, NY
New York, NY 36 9% 83% / 17% 33% $101,841 94 98% —

Soldering Iron Burn Victims

Military academies and hardcore tech institutes where you aren't allowed to graduate until you've accidentally shocked yourself with 120 volts and built a fully functioning ham radio out of garbage.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 Harvey Mudd
Claremont, CA
Claremont, CA — 9% — — — — — —
2 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Terre Haute, IN
Terre Haute, IN 41 77% 85% / 15% 7% $98,012 92 91% —
3 United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD
Annapolis, MD 15 9% 100% / 0% 0% $96,748 — — —
4 United States Military Academy
West Point, NY
West Point, NY 19 12% 84% / 16% 11% $97,284 — — —
5 United States Air Force Academy
Usaf Academy, CO
Usaf Academy, CO 18 12% 83% / 17% 0% $97,117 — — —
6 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
Troy, NY 68 67% 85% / 15% 21% $116,079 98 95% —
7 Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
Rochester, NY 100 71% 86% / 14% 4% $106,905 97 — —
8 Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL 19 66% 79% / 21% 11% $102,309 96 100% —
9 Milwaukee School of Engineering
Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee, WI 53 67% 85% / 15% 8% $87,003 87 96% —

Short Circuit Survivors

Massive state programs running on pure caffeine and spite. They survived the brutal weed-out calculus sequence and are now fully prepared to keep the physical world from plunging into the dark ages.

# ▲ University Location Degrees Accept SAT Male/Female Intl Earnings ROI Employ
1 U. of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
Santa Barbara, CA 58 38% 81% / 19% 9% $108,865 98 94% —
2 North Carolina State
Raleigh, NC
Raleigh, NC 165 40% 80% / 20% 5% $97,818 96 92% —
3 U. of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO 39 71% 87% / 13% 15% $107,891 98 100% —
4 U. of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Gainesville, FL 111 23% 77% / 23% 0% $104,143 98 97% —
5 U. of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Davis, CA 106 44% 80% / 20% 12% $108,426 98 — —
6 U. of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA
Irvine, CA 83 29% 92% / 8% 16% $103,261 97 98% —
7 Arizona State
Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ 187 88% 86% / 14% 11% $102,932 98 94% —
8 U. of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville, VA 26 12% 77% / 23% 4% $114,299 98 95% —
9 Michigan State
East Lansing, MI
East Lansing, MI 105 83% 83% / 17% 12% $102,673 96 94% —
10 Iowa State
Ames, IA
Ames, IA 98 85% 90% / 10% 10% $107,338 98 99% —
11 U. of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City, UT 53 82% 77% / 23% 0% $112,994 99 97% —
12 Oregon State
Corvallis, OR
Corvallis, OR 132 75% 87% / 13% 12% $105,331 98 94% —