ECE by the Numbers
By any metric, our numbers reveal a highly successful program, where students are taught by caring, industry-savvy and world-class faculty, and upon graduation, go on to change our world for the better.
ECE by the numbers
$52.4M
Research
Expenditures (FY 24)
Expenditures (FY 24)
786
Graduate
Students (F 24)
Students (F 24)
751
Undergraduate
Students (F 24)
Students (F 24)
93
World-Class
Faculty
Faculty
Faculty
- 60 Tenure/Tenure-track Faculty
- 26 Endowed and Named Professors
- 72 Fellows (IEEE, OSA, SPIE, AAAS, APS, IPCS, etc)
- 62 CAREER and Young Faculty Awards
- 55 Education Awards
- 3 NAI Fellows
- 5 NAE Members
- 1 Nobel Prize
- 24 Research Scientists / Investigators
- 2 Lecturers
- 22 Affiliated Faculty
- 34 Postdoctoral researchers
Students
- Undergraduate Students
- 409 Computer Engineering students
- 342 Electrical Engineering students
- 108 Electrical Engineering minor students
- Graduate Students
- 514 ECE Master’s students
- 272 ECE PhD students
Alumni
- 20K+ remarkable alumni
Research expenditures
- $52.4M
Academic programs
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- MS/MSE, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Master of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Autonomous Systems
- Data Science and Machine Learning
- Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits
- BSE, Computer Engineering
- BSE, Electrical Engineering
- Minor, Electrical Engineering
Rankings
- Undergraduate Programs (U.S. News & World Report, 2025)
- Electrical Engineering: 7
- Computer Engineering: 7
- Graduate Programs (U.S. News & World Report, 2025)
- Electrical Engineering: 7
- Computer Engineering: 6
Tech Transfer
- 34 Startups (since 2010)
- 77 Invention Disclosures (FY24)
- 28 License agreements (FY24)
- 44 U.S. Patents (FY24)