Starting Salaries
$100,000
Average salary for electrical engineers with bachelor’s degrees (PayScale)
$107,000
Average salary for electrical engineers with master’s degrees (PayScale)
$121,000
Average salary for electrical engineers with PhDs (PayScale)
Where You’ll Work
Colorado School of Mines electrical engineering graduates find employment across a wide range of industries, from aerospace and construction to public research laboratories and utilities. They work for companies of all types and sizes, such as Lockheed Martin, Xcel Energy, Raytheon and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Summer interns have been known to earn up to $80 per hour.
Overall, Mines is among the top U.S. universities for return on investment (ROI), whether that’s immediately after graduation or decades later. One study ranked Mines No. 1 among its peer group of public and non-maritime universities for ROI 30 and 40 years after earning a degree, and 19th overall out of 4,500 two- and four-year public and private institutions. Money Magazine placed Mines No. 2 among public colleges for ROI 20 years after graduation and beyond.
Why Companies Keep Hiring Mines Grads
#4 Top 25 Brainiest Colleges, #1 in Colorado (Lumosity, 2019)
6 faculty fellows of the professional organization IEEE
19:1 student-faculty ratio
#2 in combining scholarly research and classroom instruction (Wall Street Journal, 2016)
#1 for career return on investment (Georgetown University, 2019), #2 best college value (Money Magazine, 2018)