Electrical Engineering at George Mason University

If you are interested in studying electrical engineering, you may want to check out the program at George Mason University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 38,541 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Electrical Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

GMU Electrical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE
• Master’s Degree in EE

GMU Electrical Engineering Rankings

The ee major at GMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Electrical Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 6 students who received their doctoral degrees in ee, making the school the #96 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

EE Student Demographics at GMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the ee majors at George Mason University.

GMU Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 80% of ee bachelor's degrees went to men and 20% went to women. The typical ee bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% women. So female students are more repesented at GMU since its program graduates 2% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its ee bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a bachelor's in ee.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	18
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

GMU Electrical Engineering Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 90% of ee master's degrees went to men and 10% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from George Mason University with a master's in ee.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	8
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Electrical Engineering

If you plan to be a ee major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from George Mason University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Electrical Engineering	106
Telecommunications Engineering	2

Related Majors

• Operations Research
• Construction Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering

Careers That EE Grads May Go Into

A degree in ee can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Electrical Engineers	6,880	$109,690
Electronics Engineers	4,940	$114,990
Engineers	4,190	$118,390
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,030	$164,300
Aerospace Engineers	2,060	$127,390

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lucien Dalarun under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.