2022 Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania

Electrical Engineering is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #15 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual reviewed 6 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the most popular for doctor's degree seekers in the field of electrical engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 93 doctor's degrees in electrical engineering during the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Electrical Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of school for getting your doctor's degree in EE matters. As an aid in helping you pick the right school for you, we created our Most Popular Doctor's Degree Colleges for Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania ranking.

Being popular does not always equate to overall quality, but a school with a large number of electrical engineering students usually has them for a reason. This may be due to it being a great value, it offering a stellar educational experience, or the subject is a major focus of the school.

One Size Does Not Fit All

This is not our only ranking, nor the only degree level we have ranked. In addition to this ranking, you may want to take at the rankings for different degree levels as called out above. You can also narrow your search by location by filtering for a certain area of the country. On top of that, you can visit our other rankings for electrical engineering.

 

Most Popular Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania

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

Most Well Attended Schools for EE Students Working on Their Doctorate

1

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

43 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#1 Best Quality In PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Carnegie Mellon University is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. You also may be intersted to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for doctor's degrees in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

There were roughly 43 electrical engineering individuals who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent data year.

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2

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

16 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#2 Best Quality In PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Pennsylvania is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, UPenn is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #2 in quality for doctor's degrees in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

There were about 16 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.

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3

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

14 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#4 Best Quality In PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is a popular choice for students pursuing a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public university with a fairly large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #4 in quality for doctor's degrees in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

There were roughly 14 electrical engineering individuals who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent data year.

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4

Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA

10 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#3 Best Quality In PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Lehigh University is one of the most popular schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in electrical engineering. Located in the city of Bethlehem, Lehigh is a private not-for-profit university with a medium-sized student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #3 in quality for doctor's degrees in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

There were approximately 10 electrical engineering individuals who graduated with this degree at Lehigh in the most recent data year.

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5

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

9 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#5 Best Quality In PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #5 in quality for doctor's degrees in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

There were approximately 9 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year.

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6

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

1 Annual Doctor's Degrees

#6 Best Quality In PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

Located in the city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a very large student population. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #6 in quality for doctor's degrees in electrical engineering in Pennsylvania.

There were about 1 electrical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available.

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Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Most Popular Electrical Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	183	142
Maryland	114	62
New Jersey	113	63
District of Columbia	81	12
Delaware	43	1

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Electrical Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 40 majors within the Engineering area of study, Electrical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

EE Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	93

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Chemical Engineering	64
Biomedical Engineering	62
Mechanical Engineering	60
General Engineering	32
Civil Engineering	27
Materials Engineering	25
Robotics Engineering	15
Industrial Engineering	11
Computer Engineering	7
Environmental Engineering	4

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.