電機系乃是一個大系, 大多數的學校都具有電機或資訊工程, 故主修電機系的人在選校時, 一定相當頭痛, 因為選擇超多的, 有時後選擇太多或太少都會是一種困擾, 下面的學校名單並非學術排名, 而是依據該校畢業生在畢業2年後及15年後的平均薪資高低來做各校電機系畢業生未來薪資潛力排名的:(當然個人的能力,努力及運氣是皆沒有考慮在內, 故此名單只能當參考)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvey Mudd College
Stanford University
Bucknell University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
California Institute of Technology (CIT)
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Lehigh University
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
University of California, Berkeley
 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Colorado School of Mines
Cornell University
Georgia Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
Cooper Union
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (CalPoly)
Stevens Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Villanova University