2025 Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Maryland

Electrical Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #14 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 60 doctor's degrees in electrical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to electrical engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other electrical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized electrical engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for electrical engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Electrical Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Electrical Engineering in Maryland

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in electrical engineering.

Top Maryland Schools for a Doctorate in EE

1

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

Johns Hopkins University is a good choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University

2

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

38 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in electrical engineering needs to look into University of Maryland - College Park. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of Maryland - College Park

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	126
Pennsylvania	311	114
New Jersey	165	58
District of Columbia	143	6
Delaware	63	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to EE

Electrical Engineering is one of 3 different types of Electrical Engineering programs to choose from.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to NASA. More about our data sources and methodologies.