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2021 Best Electrical Engineering Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the New England Region

10 Colleges
916 Bachelor's Degrees
$39,292 Avg Cost*

Finding the Best Electrical Engineering Schools for Non-Traditional Students

Best Electrical Engineering Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the New England Region

This year's Best Electrical Engineering Colleges for Non-Traditional Students in the New England Region ranking analyzed 10 colleges that offered a bachelor's degree in ee. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great electrical engineering programs and a strong support system for non-traditional students.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as affordability, and overall quality of the electrical engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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2021 Best Electrical Engineering Schools for Non-Traditional Students in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for non-traditional students studying ee.

Top 10 Best Electrical Engineering Schools for Non-Traditional Students

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Northeastern University tops the 2021 list of our schools in the New England Region that are best for non-traditional electrical engineering students. Located in the large city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population. As a testament to the quality of education offered at Northeastern, the school also landed the #3 rank in our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region ranking.

The student loan default rate at Northeastern is lower than is typical, just 0.5% of students default in three years. There are approximately 7,987 students at Northeastern that take at least one class online. 1,267 students are part time.

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Our rankings recognize University of Massachusetts Amherst as the #2 school in this year's rankings. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst. In addition to being on our best for non-traditional students list, UMass Amherst has also earned the #6 rank in our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region ranking.

About 0.9% of UMass Amherst students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. 4,105 of UMass Amherst students are exclusively distance learners. 6,786 students are part time.

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University of Connecticut earned the #3 spot in our 2021 rankings. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs. UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region list.

About 0.9% of UCONN students default on their loans in three years, which is lower than average. There are approximately 11,648 students at UCONN that take at least one class online. 3,257 students are part time.

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Boston University
Boston, MA

Boston University comes in at #4 in this year's ranking. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston. Boston U not only placed well in our non-traditional rankings. It is also #4 on our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region list.

The student loan default rate at Boston U is lower than is typical, just 0.5% of students default in three years. 4,032 of Boston U students are exclusively distance learners. 7,057 of Boston U students are attending part time.

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Our rankings recognize Wentworth Institute of Technology as the #5 school in this year's rankings. Located in the city of Boston, WIT is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. WIT did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #9 on our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region list.

The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.9%. There are approximately 737 students at WIT that take at least one class online. There are roughly 384 part time students in attendance at WIT.

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University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #6 spot in our 2021 best electrical engineering schools for non-traditional students. UMass Lowell is a large public school located in the suburb of Lowell. UMass Lowell also took the #7 spot in our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region rankings.

The school has a low student loan default rate of 0.8%. 5,042 students at UMass Lowell are exclusively online. There are roughly 5,980 part time students in attendance at UMass Lowell.

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University of New Hampshire - Main Campus earned the #7 spot in our 2021 rankings. Located in the small suburb of Durham, UNH is a public school with a fairly large student population. UNH also took the #8 spot in our Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering in the New England Region rankings.

The student loan default rate at UNH is lower than is typical, just 1.0% of students default in three years. There are approximately 3,625 students at UNH that take at least one class online. There are roughly 1,355 part time students in attendance at UNH.

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University of Rhode Island earned the #8 spot in our 2021 rankings. URI is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.5%. There are approximately 5,504 students at URI that take at least one class online. 2,982 of URI students are attending part time.

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University of New Haven
West Haven, CT

Our rankings recognize University of New Haven as the #9 school in this year's rankings. University of New Haven is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of West Haven.

The student loan default rate at University of New Haven is lower than is typical, just 1.6% of students default in three years. There are approximately 4,526 students at University of New Haven that take at least one class online. About 1,053 of the students at University of New Haven are attending part time.

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University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth earned the #10 spot in our 2021 rankings. UMass Dartmouth is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized suburb of North Dartmouth.

The school has a low student loan default rate of 1.7%. 1,514 students at UMass Dartmouth are exclusively online. There are roughly 2,061 part time students in attendance at UMass Dartmouth.

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Best for Non-Traditional Students Electrical Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best for non-traditional students electrical engineering schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 572
Connecticut 146
New Hampshire 30
Rhode Island 46
Maine 34
Vermont 30

Electrical Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

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*Avg Cost is for the top 10 schools only.

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