Electrical Engineering (EE) offers a flexible program that enables students to prepare for a wide range of careers. The curriculum provides a broad exposure to fundamental areas including electronic devices and circuits, signal processing and communications, and computer hardware; students select an area of concentration and pursue advanced courses in diverse fields such as lasers and optics, solid state physics, computer design, image processing, wireless communications, and others. Certificate programs may complement the EE major; the certificates in Finance, in Engineering Biology, in Engineering Physics, and in Engineering and Management Systems are particularly popular among EE majors. Juniors take a design project course unique to Princeton, and each student completes an independent work project carried out under the supervision of a faculty researcher, usually in senior year.

EE graduates are in high demand in major technology companies and in consulting firms. A significant fraction of the graduating class goes on to graduate or professional schools in engineering or related areas, medicine, law, and business.