Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University

If you plan to study electrical engineering, take a look at what Santa Clara University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

SCU is located in Santa Clara, California and has a total student population of 8,616. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 20 students received a bachelor's degree in EE from SCU.

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.

SCU Electrical Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in EE

SCU Electrical Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the EE progam at SCU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The EE major at SCU 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	21
Best Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	33
Best Electrical Engineering Schools	35
Most Popular Electrical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools	143
Most Popular Electrical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	225
Most Popular Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	228
Best Value Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	234
Most Popular Electrical Engineering Schools	259
Best Value Electrical Engineering Schools	259

In 2021, 0 student received their master’s degree in EE from SCU. This is the #225 most popular school for EE master’s degree candidates in the country.

EE Student Demographics at SCU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the EE majors at Santa Clara University.

SCU Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 20 students earned a bachelor's degree in EE from SCU. About 25% of these graduates were women and the other 75% were men. The typical EE bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% women. So female students are more repesented at SCU since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 26% 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 Santa Clara University with a bachelor's in EE.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

SCU also has a doctoral program available in EE. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering
• General Engineering
• Engineering Physics
• Civil 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 CA, the home state for Santa Clara University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	31,580	$175,010
Electronics Engineers	29,210	$123,540
Electrical Engineers	26,570	$114,170
Engineers	20,600	$107,700
Aerospace Engineers	11,440	$125,540

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 Arnaudh under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.