Best Electrical Engineering Colleges in the World

Electrical engineers typically hold a degree in electrical engineering. Getting into top colleges to study electrical engineering is a bonus on your resume as these places offer great opportunities to explore newer arenas in the engineering field. This article includes the list of the top 10 electrical engineering colleges in the world and their details. 

Top 10 Electrical Engineering Colleges in the World 2024-25

Below are the most popular colleges for electrical engineering, according to the QS World University Rankings, 2024.

Details on the Best Electrical Engineering Colleges 

The details on some of the top electrical engineering colleges are given below. 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Year of establishment: 1861

• The total number of students enrolled in October 2021 was 11,934, out of which 39% were pursuing undergraduate studies and 61% post-graduation.
• A total of 3,417 students are from overseas pursuing degree programs.
• The institute offers 56 undergraduate majors, 58 undergraduate minors and 50 graduate degrees.
• More than 2,400 students live on campus.
• Research areas in electrical engineering at the university are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Communications Systems, Computer Architecture, Educational Technology, Energy, Robotics, Optics Photonics, etc.

Stanford University

Year of establishment: 1885

• The total number of undergraduate students enrolled in Autumn 2021 was 7,645, whereas 9,292 students were studying post-graduate courses. 
• At present, 20 Nobel laureates are a part of the university.
• Student-to-Faculty ratio is 5:1.
• The university has 7 schools - Business, Sustainability, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, Medicine
• The official name of the university is Leland Stanford Junior University.

University of California, Berkeley

Year of establishment: 1868

• In 2022, the U.S News & World Report recognised the university as the world's top public and fourth best overall in its global rankings. 
• Student-to-Faculty ratio is 17.8:1
• The university has a total of 184 academic departments and 350 degree programs.
• Among the current faculty, 9 are Nobel Prize winners and a total of 32 alumni hold the same.
• UC Berkeley's prestigious electrical engineering and computer sciences department ranks globally among all EE and CS departments.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Year of establishment: 1991

• NTU Singapore is recognised as one of the world's top universities and has world-class institutes, namely - Earth Observatory of Singapore, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, the National Institute of Education, and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering. It also has one of the most exquisite campuses globally.
• A total of 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students are enrolled at the university studying arts, humanities, education, engineering, arts, business, science, social sciences, and medicine.
• The university has 5,000 faculty and researchers from 79 nations and a total of 275,000 alumni.
• Five of the subjects in NTU have been ranked 1st in the world in the U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings 2022-23.
• It is one of the two largest universities in Singapore and its School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is among the most highly ranked schools globally.

ETH Zurich

Year of establishment: 1855

• At present, a total of 24,500 students, representing 120 nations, are enrolled at ETH Zurich.
• 37% of the students are from overseas.
• 16% of the students are enrolled on a Bachelor's course, 42% in a Master's course, and 74% in a doctoral course.
• In the year 2021, the most popular course among the students was mechanical engineering, followed by computer science and architecture.
• After one year of passing out, 100% of the master's and doctoral alumni are employed.

• In the year 2020-2021, a total of 12,720 students were enrolled on an undergraduate course and 7,527 on a postgraduate course. Overall, 20,247 students were studying at the University of Cambridge, UK.
• In 2022, over 315,000 living alumni were living in countries like India, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, USA, Germany, etc.
• 121 Nobel Prize Laureates have been associated with the university.
• 93% of those who passed out were either employed or studying further within 15 months of graduating.

Harvard University

Year of establishment: 1636

• A total of 35,276 students are studying at Harvard University and more than 400k alumni are living all across the globe.
• There are 12 degree-granting schools in the university along with the Harvard Radcliff Institute.
• Research areas available in electrical engineering courses are Circuits and VLSI, Computer Engineering and Architecture, Robotics and Control, and Signal Processing.

National University of Singapore

Year of establishment: 1905

• The university started as a modest medical school with only 23 students. It now has three campuses: Kent Ridge, Bukit Timah and Outram.
• The university offers 60 bachelor's degrees and 174 master's degrees, doctoral degrees, and graduate diplomas.

University of Oxford

Year of establishment: 1096

• The university obtained the first position in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
• Over 25,000 students are enrolled at the university out of which 12,510 are pursuing undergraduate studies and 13,044 postgraduate studies.
• 45% of the students at Oxford are from overseas, representing 160 nations.
• The university's drop-out rate is among the lowest in the UK and more than 91% of the passing out crown either get a job or study further 6 months after graduating.
• It ranks 2nd in the QS World University Rankings 2022.

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