Graduate Programs
Study Electrical and Computer Engineering at a Top Research University
University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering graduate students are forward-thinking problem solvers who ultimately find themselves in high demand in academia, industry and government.
Here, you do not participate in research. You drive it, creating new technology that changes lives for the better. From communications and signal processing to advanced computer systems and networks, tap into a flexible curriculum and choose the focus of your PhD or MS, including an online master’s degree geared to working engineers.
Questions? For more information on the UA ECE graduate program contact gradadmissions@ece.arizona.edu.
Highlights of the UA ECE graduate program include:
- Wide spectrum of interdisciplinary research
- Highly ranked programs
- Robust entrepreneurial community
- Strong industrial ties
- Tech and bioscience hotspot
- Globally recognized faculty
- Funding throughout degree lifecycle
High-Profile, Interdisciplinary Research
UA electrical and computer engineering grad programs unite faculty and students from diverse disciplines and provide a number of high-profile research opportunities in the following focus areas:
- Autonomous systems and robotics communications
- Coding and information theory
- Signal, image and video processing
- Biomedical technologies
- Computer architecture and cloud/distributed computing
- Software engineering and embedded systems
- Circuits, microelectronics and very-large scale integration
- Optics, photonics and terahertz devices and systems
- Wireless networking, security and systems
Student in the Spotlight
Artificial Brains for Real Inspiration
ECE doctoral student Kama Svoboda earned a UA graduate fellowship and researches Spiking Neural Networks, an artificial intelligence that mimics the human brain.
"As a research scientist, my goal is to be a positive role model and mentor, especially for other women in STEM."
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Rankings
Top 20
U. S. public research institution
(National Science Foundation and Times Higher Education)
Top 25%
computer engineering schools, public
(U.S. News & World Report)
4.5 out of 5
best graduate school programs
(Money Magazine)