2025 Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa

Ranked #25 in popularity, electrical engineering is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. 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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 152 bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Electrical Engineering Schools

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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Iowa list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Electrical Engineering in Iowa

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

Top Iowa Schools for a Bachelor's in EE

1

Iowa State University
Ames, IA

112 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering has to check out Iowa State University. Iowa State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Ames.More information about a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Iowa State University

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

37 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering has to look into University of Iowa. Located in the small city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from University of Iowa

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	237
Minnesota	446	212
Kansas	352	78
Nebraska	331	57
North Dakota	251	95
South Dakota	237	46

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Rankings in Majors Related to EE

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.