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

Ranked #13 in popularity, electrical engineering is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 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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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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.
• Student Debt - How much debt electrical engineering students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Doctor's Degree Schools in South Carolina list to help you make the college 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

15 Annual Graduates

Clemson University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Clemson is a very large public university located in the suburb of Clemson.More information about a doctorate in electrical engineering from Clemson University

2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

13 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in electrical engineering has to check out University of South Carolina - Columbia. UofSC is a fairly large public university located in the midsize 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	138	134
Virginia	127	64
Georgia	126	91
North Carolina	115	99
Mississippi	113	4
Louisiana	103	7
Tennessee	102	25
Alabama	98	20
Kentucky	87	10

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Electrical Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Electrical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

EE Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	28

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	23
Chemical Engineering	20
Civil Engineering	20
Biomedical Engineering	19
Other Engineering	9
Computer Engineering	8
Environmental Engineering	8
Materials Engineering	8
Industrial Engineering	5
Nuclear Engineering	1

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.