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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2021-2022, 6,553 people earned their degree in engineering-related fields, making the major the 112th most popular in the United States. In , engineering-related fields graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $77,404 and had an average of $26,058 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,444 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,093 and $25,085 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering-related fields. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering-related fields program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southeast Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southeast Region list. Clemson University is a large public school situated in Clemson, South Carolina. It awarded 1 doctorate’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Engineering-Related Fields at Clemson University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Melbourne, Florida is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s engineering-related fields degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Engineering-Related Fields at Florida Institute of Technology
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
