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GRE Scores for Electrical Engineering
The ideal GRE score needed to make it to a top engineering program in US often confounds students applying for graduate programs in Electrical engineering. There is no ideal GRE score that guarantees admissions in graduate electrical/electronics engineering. There is still a range of acceptable GRE score that every program expects from its applicants.
All universities in the US shares average GRE scores of its admitted applicants from the most recent year – some share it publicly on their websites whereas others share the details when contacted.
All top EE programs require a very high 165+ GRE quant scores and the score varies very little for rest of the universities.
Good news
The verbal score has little impact on your admissions to graduate electrical engineering programs and the average verbal score for top 25 programs hovers at around 155 and for the rest it is around 150. Anything above 150 on the verbal section is an acceptable score for most electrical engineering programs.
In short, you have no choice but to score excessively on the quant section of the test.
Many top schools reject students despite a balanced score. For example, 160 quant and a 162 Verbal.
On the other hand, many schools accept students with a skewed quant score. For example, 167 quant and a 149 on verbal.
Hence quant score are vital.
Ideal GRE score for Electrical Engineering?
We would say 166+ and 154+ for all top ranked graduate programs in Electrical engineering. If you have that, just focus on other aspects of the application.
Here is the data for the top 120 Electrical Engineering programs in US.
Rank | Name | Average GRE (Quant Score) |
---|---|---|
1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 166 |
2 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 167 |
3 | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 165 |
4 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 169 |
5 | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 166 |
6 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 164 |
7 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 166 |
8 | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 165 |
9 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 166 |
10 | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 164 |
11 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 165 |
12 | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 167 |
13 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 167 |
14 | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | 166 |
15 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA | 166 |
16 | University of California—San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA | 166 |
17 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 165 |
18 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 164 |
19 | University of Maryland—College Park (Clark) College Park, MD | 164 |
20 | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 164 |
21 | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 162 |
22 | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX | 166 |
23 | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 164 |
24 | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 165 |
25 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 164 |
26 | Duke University (Pratt) Durham, NC | 164 |
27 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | 166 |
28 | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | 166 |
29 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 163 |
30 | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 163 |
31 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 166 |
32 | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC | 164 |
33 | Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ | 162 |
34 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 163 |
35 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA | 164 |
36 | Boston University Boston, MA | 164 |
37 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | 164 |
38 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ | 163 |
39 | University of Colorado—Boulder Boulder, CO | 162 |
40 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN | 163 |
41 | Yale University New Haven, CT | 168 |
42 | Iowa State University Ames, IA | 167 |
43 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | 162 |
44 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | 162 |
45 | University of California—Davis Davis, CA | 163 |
46 | University of California—Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA | 164 |
47 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | 163 |
48 | Dartmouth College (Thayer) Hanover, NH | 164 |
49 | Michigan State University East Lansing, MI | 162 |
50 | University of Massachusetts—Amherst Amherst, MA | 163 |
51 | Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO | 165 |
52 | Brown University Providence, RI | 165 |
53 | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH | 164 |
54 | New York University (Tandon) Brooklyn, NY | 164 |
55 | Auburn University (Ginn) Auburn, AL | 163 |
56 | Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA | 165 |
57 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR | 160 |
58 | Tufts University Medford, MA | 162 |
59 | University of Central Florida Orlando, FL | 160 |
60 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT | 163 |
61 | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA | 162 |
62 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY | 165 |
63 | University of Tennessee—Knoxville (Tickle) Knoxville, TN | 160 |
64 | University of Texas—Dallas (Jonsson) Richardson, TX | 162 |
65 | Clemson University Clemson, SC | 158 |
66 | Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO | 167 |
67 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA | 160 |
69 | University of Delaware Newark, DE | 169 |
70 | University of Houston (Cullen) Houston, TX | 161 |
71 | University of Illinois—Chicago Chicago, IL | 160 |
72 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT | 161 |
73 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA | 164 |
74 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) Chicago, IL | 160 |
75 | Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer) Hoboken, NJ | 161 |
76 | Stony Brook University—SUNY Stony Brook, NY | 165 |
77 | University at Buffalo—SUNY Buffalo, NY | 162 |
78 | University of California—Riverside (Bourns) Riverside, CA | 162 |
79 | University of Iowa Iowa City, IA | 161 |
80 | University of Kansas Lawrence, KS | 161 |
81 | University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | 145 |
82 | Washington State University Pullman, WA | 161 |
83 | Brigham Young University (Fulton) Provo, UT | 162 |
84 | Kansas State University Manhattan, KS | 162 |
85 | Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO | 156 |
86 | New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ | 159 |
87 | Syracuse University Syracuse, NY | 162 |
88 | University of Arkansas—Fayetteville Fayetteville, AR | 159 |
89 | University of California—Santa Cruz (Baskin) Santa Cruz, CA | 164 |
90 | University of South Florida Tampa, FL | 158 |
91 | University of Texas—Arlington Arlington, TX | 158 |
92 | Binghamton University—SUNY (Watson) Binghamton, NY | 160 |
93 | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO | 160 |
94 | Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK | 160 |
95 | Southern Methodist University (Lyle) Dallas, TX | 159 |
96 | Texas Tech University (Whitacre) Lubbock, TX | 159 |
97 | University of Kentucky Lexington, KY | 160 |
98 | University of Miami Coral Gables, FL | 159 |
99 | University of Nebraska—Lincoln Lincoln, NE | 161 |
100 | University of North Carolina—Charlotte (Lee) Charlotte, NC | 152 |
101 | University of Oklahoma Norman, OK | 161 |
102 | Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA | 159 |
104 | George Washington University Washington, DC | 163 |
105 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI | 162 |
106 | Temple University Philadelphia, PA | 159 |
107 | University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH | 161 |
109 | University of Maryland—Baltimore County Baltimore, MD | 157 |
110 | University of Massachusetts—Dartmouth North Dartmouth, MA | 155 |
111 | Wayne State University Detroit, MI | 156 |
112 | Florida A&M University - Florida State University Tallahassee, FL | 157 |
113 | George Mason University (Volgenau) Fairfax, VA | 159 |
114 | Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, LA | 159 |
115 | Mississippi State University (Bagley) Mississippi State, MS | 158 |
116 | New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM | 157 |
117 | San Diego State University San Diego, CA | 157 |
118 | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL | 160 |
119 | University of Alabama—Huntsville Huntsville, AL | 157 |
120 | University of Colorado—Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, CO | 154 |
121 | University of Missouri Columbia, MO | 161 |
123 | University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI | 158 |