2025 Best Electrical Engineering Schools in South Carolina
3Colleges in South Carolina
177EE Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #30 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in South Carolina to determine which ones were the best for electrical engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 177 degrees in electrical engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of electrical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Electrical Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Electrical Engineering Schools in South Carolina list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Electrical Engineering in South Carolina
The schools below may not offer all types of ee degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student pursuing a degree in electrical engineering has to check out Clemson University. Clemson is a very large public university located in the suburb of Clemson. This university ranks 2nd out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were approximately 98 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Clemson in the most recent data year.
University of South Carolina - Columbia is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in electrical engineering. UofSC is a very large public university located in the city of Columbia. A Best Colleges rank of #99 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UofSC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 45 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UofSC in the most recent year we have data available.
Citadel Military College of South Carolina is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in electrical engineering. Located in the midsize city of Charleston, The Citadel is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 4th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were approximately 34 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at The Citadel in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of electrical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Electrical Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
