Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering
What the IPEDS & College Scorecard Data Shows for Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering
Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering is tracked across 65 U.S. postsecondary institutions in the College Scorecard field-of-study file, which links CIP code classifications from IPEDS to Treasury earnings records. This profile covers the graduate certificate credential level specifically, because the Department of Education reports program-level outcomes separately for associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral awards. The CIP (Classification of Instructional Programs) taxonomy lets analysts roll up specialties into broader families, which is why earnings medians across schools can be compared on a common basis.
Across all reporting institutions, the mean of school-level medians is $138,018, calculated from 1 schools with published earnings data. The top-reporting institution in this program is Northeastern University at $138,018. These numbers reflect Treasury-derived wages, deferred compensation, and positive self-employment earnings four years after completion for federally aided completers who were working and not enrolled.
Variation across schools matters more than a single national figure. Completer counts and earnings cohort counts are distinct source fields, so the displayed completer count should not be assumed to be the earnings denominator. PlainCollege's debt-to-earnings ratio divides median federal debt by annual median earnings as a descriptive comparison; it is not the Department's formal gainful-employment test. Use the school-by-school table to compare reported outcomes while accounting for cohort size, suppression, program mix, and location.
Top Schools for This Program
| School Name | State | Awards (latest year) | Median Earnings (4 yrs after completion) | Median Debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northeastern University | MA | - | $138,018 | - |
Awards and earnings come from different reference periods, so they are not a count and an average of the same people. Awards is the number of credentials the school reported for the latest IPEDS year; median earnings is measured four years after completion, for a separate pooled cohort of earlier graduates. A school can therefore report zero awards in the latest year and still have earnings on record. The earnings figure is not the awards figure’s average, and the awards count is not the earnings sample size. Schools are ranked on the four-year earnings figure only, so every row is compared on the same basis.
Compare beyond the CIP family
Nationwide peers by school count & four-year earnings
Cross-field programs at the same credential level nearest Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering on school-count breadth (65 schools) and mean four-year median earnings ($138,018). Peers exclude the same two-digit CIP family so neighborhoods are not CIP-containment siblings. School-count peers include Accounting and Related Services, Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology, Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing. Earnings peers include Business Administration, Management and Operations. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of programs.
Similar school count
Nearest programs (≥50 schools) by absolute school-count breadth, outside this CIP family.
- Accounting and Related Services CIP 5203 · $84,500 mean 4-yr 179 schools
- Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology CIP 4228 · $72,850 mean 4-yr 258 schools
- Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing CIP 5138 · $126,888 mean 4-yr 419 schools
- Educational Administration and Supervision CIP 1304 · $90,835 mean 4-yr 440 schools
Similar four-year earnings
Nearest programs by mean four-year median earnings (deduped against the school-count neighborhood).
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About This Data
Earnings data comes from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard Field of Study file retrieved in March 2026. The program metric displayed here represents federally aided completers who were working and not enrolled four years after credential completion, using Treasury-derived records published through the Scorecard. Completer counts and debt figures come from the same field-of-study snapshot; the Department refreshes components on schedules documented in its changelog, not one fixed annual date.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Earnings data sourced from IRS records via the U.S. Treasury–Department of Education matching protocol used by the College Scorecard.