2024 Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
255Associate Degrees
an associate degree in electrical engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #253 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 255 associate degrees in electrical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Electrical Engineering School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of electrical engineering for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 associate 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 associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Electrical Engineering Associate Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Electrical Engineering in the United States
Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for electrical engineering students seeking a an associate degree.
University of Hartford is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in electrical engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of West Hartford, UHart is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in electrical engineering from University of Hartford
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).