2025 Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina

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.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Electrical Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 28 doctor's degrees in electrical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on electrical engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of electrical engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized electrical engineering related body.

Our complete 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 South Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Electrical Engineering in South Carolina

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

Top South Carolina Schools for a Doctorate in EE

1

Clemson University
Clemson, SC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

15 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in electrical engineering needs to check out Clemson University. Clemson is a very large public university located in the midsize suburb of Clemson.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Clemson University

2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. UofSC is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Columbia.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from University of South Carolina - Columbia

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	113
North Carolina	190	99
Georgia	190	91
Virginia	182	64
Mississippi	154	4
Tennessee	150	25
Louisiana	146	7
Alabama	139	20
Kentucky	119	10

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Electrical Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 3 majors within the Electrical Engineering area of study, Electrical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.