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 San Diego State University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in EE, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at SDSU was ranked #87 on College Factual's Best Schools for EE list. It is also ranked #14 in California.
Here are some of the other rankings for SDSU.
Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $5,742 | $17,622 |
Fees | $1,978 | $1,978 |
Books and Supplies | $1,079 | $1,079 |
On Campus Room and Board | $18,531 | $18,531 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,910 | $2,910 |
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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 SDSU took out an average of $18,497 in student loans. That is 22% lower than the national average of $23,573.
The median early career salary of EE students who receive their bachelor’s degree from SDSU is $72,413 per year. That is 9% higher than the national average of $66,265.
Online degrees for the SDSU 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 SDSU Online Learning page.
Women made up around 7.6% of the EE students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 15.7%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in EE at SDSU in 2019-2020, 40.9% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 36%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 16 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 29 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 46 |
International Students | 27 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 13 |
Electrical Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Electrical Engineering | 132 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering | 61 |
Biomedical Engineering | 1 |
Civil Engineering | 191 |
Computer Engineering | 81 |
Environmental Engineering | 38 |
*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.
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