Best Value / By Major

Best Value Colleges for Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Schools ranked by payback period — how quickly you recoup your investment through higher earnings.

50

Schools Ranked

$69,383

Avg. Earnings

<1 yr

Best Payback

19,528

Graduates

How we calculate value: Payback = (4 years of net price) / (major earnings - $35k baseline). A 2-year payback means you recoup your investment in 2 years through higher earnings vs. not attending college.

#	School	Net Price/yr	Major Earnings	Payback
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA · Private	$2,834	$121,226	<1 yr
2	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA · Public	$13,423	$128,868	<1 yr
3	Stanford University Stanford, CA · Private	$7,081	$84,653	<1 yr
4	Cornell University Ithaca, NY · Private	$9,785	$92,277	<1 yr
5	Brigham Young University-Idaho Rexburg, ID · Private	$5,422	$66,653	<1 yr
6	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY · Private	$8,106	$74,953	<1 yr
7	University of Florida Gainesville, FL · Public	$8,394	$75,405	<1 yr
8	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD · Private	$8,457	$79,653	<1 yr
9	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI · Public	$10,481	$82,123	<1 yr
10	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA · Public	$8,393	$70,961	<1 yr
11	University of Washington-Tacoma Campus Tacoma, WA · Public	$8,147	$70,961	<1 yr
12	California State University-Fresno Fresno, CA · Public	$8,030	$70,009	<1 yr
13	Florida International University Miami, FL · Public	$7,292	$66,653	<1 yr
14	California State University-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA · Public	$5,700	$59,124	<1 yr
15	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA · Public	$12,644	$83,915	1 yrs
16	University of Washington-Bothell Campus Bothell, WA · Public	$9,439	$70,961	1 yrs
17	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN · Public	$8,450	$69,338	1 yrs
18	University of Connecticut-Avery Point Groton, CT · Public	$9,414	$70,917	1 yrs
19	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA · Private	$21,526	$114,223	1.1 yrs
20	California State University-Northridge Northridge, CA · Public	$10,780	$73,070	1.1 yrs
21	Oakland University Rochester Hills, MI · Public	$12,008	$78,488	1.1 yrs
22	University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus Waterbury, CT · Public	$10,112	$70,917	1.1 yrs
23	University of West Florida Pensacola, FL · Public	$7,301	$61,172	1.1 yrs
24	The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, TX · Public	$5,452	$55,693	1.1 yrs
25	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL · Public	$11,505	$73,707	1.2 yrs
26	University of Michigan-Dearborn Dearborn, MI · Public	$12,398	$77,464	1.2 yrs
27	University of South Florida Tampa, FL · Public	$9,669	$67,772	1.2 yrs
28	Wayne State University Detroit, MI · Public	$13,612	$79,473	1.2 yrs
29	Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI · Public	$11,794	$75,989	1.2 yrs
30	Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO · Public	$11,656	$73,358	1.2 yrs
31	University of Missouri-St Louis Saint Louis, MO · Public	$11,291	$72,714	1.2 yrs
32	New Mexico State University-Main Campus Las Cruces, NM · Public	$11,116	$73,635	1.2 yrs
33	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI · Public	$10,364	$68,379	1.2 yrs
34	University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus Hartford, CT · Public	$10,515	$70,917	1.2 yrs
35	California State University-Fullerton Fullerton, CA · Public	$9,017	$65,610	1.2 yrs
36	West Virginia University Institute of Technology Beckley, WV · Public	$10,775	$67,995	1.3 yrs
37	University of Central Florida Orlando, FL · Public	$9,426	$63,817	1.3 yrs
38	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH · Public	$13,273	$74,576	1.3 yrs
39	CUNY City College New York, NY · Public	$7,521	$57,318	1.3 yrs
40	The University of Texas at El Paso El Paso, TX · Public	$10,682	$66,821	1.3 yrs
41	University of North Florida Jacksonville, FL · Public	$10,194	$66,897	1.3 yrs
42	Saginaw Valley State University University Center, MI · Public	$14,265	$78,343	1.3 yrs
43	University of Wyoming Laramie, WY · Public	$9,394	$63,005	1.3 yrs
44	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX · Public	$16,134	$80,550	1.4 yrs
45	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN · Private	$14,020	$75,518	1.4 yrs
46	University of Houston Houston, TX · Public	$13,382	$74,576	1.4 yrs
47	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ · Public	$13,644	$72,699	1.4 yrs
48	California State University-Sacramento Sacramento, CA · Public	$12,602	$70,596	1.4 yrs
49	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA · Public	$11,189	$67,287	1.4 yrs
50	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA · Public	$11,126	$66,076	1.4 yrs

Top Earners in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

See schools ranked by earnings alone, without considering cost.

Best Value Rankings

Explore best value colleges across all majors and categories.

Payback uses earnings by major from the College Scorecard's field-of-study file, last updated June 2026, against net price from the June 2026 release. Scorecard publishes the two separately, so they are different vintages.