The Best Electrical Engineering Graduate Schools

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the most recognizable name in the field of engineering along with other disciplines like physics. "U.S. News & World Report" ranked MIT's electrical engineering graduate program as the best in the nation. In actuality, the program tied with two other top-tier programs. MIT's electrical engineering department has played a central role in the development of many technologies such as cell phones and HD television. Electrical engineering is taught at MIT in conjunction with the closely related discipline of computer science. The department emphasizes a number of primary areas of study: bioelectrical engineering, systems, communication, control and signal processing, engineering physics, computer science and electronics, computers and systems. In 2008, the total graduate engineering enrollment was 2,706 and the department offers both the master's and the doctoral degrees.

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  School of Engineering
  77 Massachusetts Ave., Rm. 1-206
  Cambridge, MA 02139
  617-253-3291
  engineering.mit.edu

Stanford University

• Stanford University tied with MIT as the best electrical engineering graduate program in the nation and second overall as an engineering institution. Stanford is known for its interdisciplinary approach to nearly every area of academic research. This is also true of its engineering programs. Research areas covered by the electrical engineering department are numerous: fields and waves, biomedical devices and bioimaging, nanofabrication science and technology, energy, electronic, photonic and magnetic devices, environmental and remote sensing, nano, quantum science and engineering, graphics, HCI, computer vision and photography, integrated circuit design, web applications, data management and security, control, learning and optimization and systems hardware, among others. In 2008, the total graduate engineering enrollment was 3,374, and the department awards both master's and doctoral degrees.

  Stanford University
  Terman Engineering Center, Room 214
  Stanford, CA 94305
  650-723-3938
  soe.stanford.edu

University of California, Berkeley

• The University of California, Berkeley (UCB), is the third program tied for the top spot as the best electrical engineering graduate program in the nation. UCB is also known for its leading scholarship in various engineering fields. The computer science and electrical engineering division offers multiple master's degree programs in the field. It also offers the Ph.D. Like the Stanford and MIT programs, UCB's electrical engineering department covers various fields of study such as robotics and pattern recognition, solid-state circuits, software engineering, microwave electronics, digital signal processing, quantum and optical electronics, computer vision, robotics, information theory and artificial intelligence, among many others. In 2008, the total graduate engineering enrollment was 1,774.

  University of California, Berkeley
  College of Engineering
  320 McLaughlin Hall, No. 1704
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  510-542-7405
  coe.berkeley.edu