Electrical and Computer Engineering (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.

Faculty

• 69 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
  • 4 active and 5 emeritus 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
  • Alumni in academia
  • Stories of some of our alumni
  • Alumni award winners

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, ranked in 2024)
  • Electrical Engineering: 7
  • Computer Engineering: 7
• Graduate Programs (U.S. News & World Report, ranked in 2025)
  • Electrical Engineering: 6
  • Computer Engineering: 7

Tech Transfer

• 34 Startups (since 2010)
• 77 Invention Disclosures (FY24)
• 28 License agreements (FY24)
• 44 U.S. Patents (FY24)