Electrical engineering at UC Irvine
UC Irvine graduates about 88 electrical engineering majors a year, 1% of its graduating class. That puts it 31st of 312 schools we score for electrical engineering, a standout program at 83 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $107,000 four years out, 1.07× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $17 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Around UC Irvine
Where electrical engineering happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: McDonnell-Douglas Engineering Auditorium, Rockwell Engineering Center, Engineering Laboratory Facility, UCI Vehicle Performance Engineering Laboratory, Engineering Hall, Engineering and Computing Trailer, Engineering Lecture Hall, Multipurpose Science and Technology Building, Art Culture & Technology, Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building, Engineering Gateway, California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology.
Named buildings on the campus map: Dorm 128 · Academic 107 · Student housing 52 · Offices 16 · Athletics 7 · Arts 5.
Nearby in the electrical engineering ranking
Other strong majors at UC Irvine
- Physics & astronomy 91 · #22
- Engineering (all) 91 · #28
- Civil engineering 91 · #8
- Environmental science 90 · #28
- Film & media production 90 · #12
- Computer engineering 89 · #12
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares UC Irvine with every school we score in electrical engineering. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (25%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (20%) and the size of the program (15%, capped so size alone can't win). 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.