The main focus area for this major is Electrical Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Electrical Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in EE, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is in the top 10% of the country for EE. More specifically it was ranked #28 out of 325 schools by College Factual. It is also ranked #6 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $5,742 | $17,622 |
Fees | $4,329 | $8,349 |
Books and Supplies | $888 | $888 |
On Campus Room and Board | $15,694 | $15,694 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,190 | $2,190 |
Learn more about Cal Poly San Luis Obispo tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. EE students who received their bachelor’s degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo took out an average of $24,000 in student loans. That is about the same as the national average of $23,573.
The median early career salary of EE students who receive their bachelor’s degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is $78,814 per year. That is 19% higher than the national average of $66,265.
Online degrees for the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo EE bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their bachelor’s degree in EE in 2019-2020, 21.5% of them were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 15.7%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in EE at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2019-2020, 59.2% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 36%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 36 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 28 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 45 |
International Students | 5 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 14 |
Electrical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Electrical Engineering | 130 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 113 |
Agricultural Engineering | 39 |
Architectural Engineering | 38 |
Biomedical Engineering | 102 |
Civil Engineering | 159 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.