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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.
Engineering-Related Fields is the 112th most popular major in the country with 6,553 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 Southwest region, there were 411 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,454 and $29,052 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 engineering-related fields graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in engineering-related fields in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 Southwest Region”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering-Related Fields Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #1 spot on the list. SMU is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 2 doctorate’s engineering-related fields degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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.
