Here are some schools with amazing electrical engineering programs which I know of: MIT; Cal Tech; University of California - Berkeley; Stanford University; Penn State University; University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; University of Wisconsin - Madison; University of Michigan - Ann Arbor; Cal poly; University of Texas - Austin; Arizona State University; University of Colorado - Boulder; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign; University of Washington - Seattle . It's extremely hard to get admission on these schools listed above in engineering program. But if he has good SAT, and TOEFL, why not give it a shot.