With the demand for online and distance education growing among professional and nontraditional students, top-ranked state and private universities are moving their on-campus programs into the online educational realm.
This is particularly true for electrical engineering schools, as there has been a rise in online electrical engineering university programs being offered from some of the top schools in the United States.
This article reviews both an ABET-accredited undergraduate program and quality graduate programs from the best engineering programs.
Top Electrical Engineering Schools – University of Michigan
The University of Michigan has the seventh-best graduate electrical engineering university program in the United States, according U.S. News & World Report's 2009 rankings, and offers an online electrical engineering master's degree.
Students are required to take 30 credit hours of core engineering courses, which are available in the following specialized areas of study:
- Control systems
- Digital signal processing
- Wireless networks
- Embedded systems
- Pattern recognition
- Image processing
Online courses are delivered over a centralized platform on an asynchronous schedule, which allows students to view archived lectures at their convenience. Additionally, students have access online to assignments, learning resources, group projects and discussion forums.
For more information on tuition and admissions, contact UM at (313) 593-5000.
Online Electrical Engineering – Purdue University
Purdue University was ranked in 2009 as having the tenth-best graduate electrical engineering university program according to U.S. News & World Report. Purdue offers an online electrical engineering master's degree.
Students in the graduate program have the ability to from the following concentration areas:
- Automatic controls
- Communications, Networking, Signal & Image Processing
- Energy Sources and Systems
- Field and Optics
- Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
- VL SI and Circuit Design
Students are required to take 30 credit hours, which equals 10 courses. Students have a thesis option which only requires 18 credit hours in conjunction with the completion of a quantitative thesis.
Online courses at Purdue are delivered on an asynchronous schedule, allowing students to learn online when it is most convenient for them. Lectures are available in streaming video over the internet, and some courses provide supplementary physical learning materials.
For more information on one of the top electrical engineering schools, contact Purdue at 877-598-4233.
Electrical Engineering – University of North Dakota
The University of North Dakota offers an ABA-accredited online electrical engineering bachelor's degree program. Students who pursue the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering are required to take 136 total credit hours in both general education and core engineering courses.
According to UND, the online program takes approximately six years to complete, and online courses consist mainly of recorded lectures which student have the flexibility to view at their convenience. Additionally, students are required to visit the UND campus once every summer for a intensive week-long lab sessions.
Students have the option of transferring in 106 credit hours if they have earned college credits elsewhere, and are only required to take the 30 core engineering credit hours at UND.
For more information on UND's online electrical engineering program, contact UND at 1-800-342-8230.
Benefit of Top Electrical Engineering Schools
Students who earn online degrees from top-ranked and prestigious engineering schools are positioned just as well in the job market as those who have earned degrees on-campus. In fact, most of the best electrical engineering schools make no differentiation between on-campus and online degrees on diplomas.
For information on additional engineering online programs, see also:
Mechanical Engineering Online Degree Programs
Computer Engineering Online Degrees
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