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

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GRE Scores for Electrical Engineering

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