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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Telcom Engineering Major in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Telecommunications Engineering is the 916th most popular major in the country with 133 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Texas, there were 38 telecommunications engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Telcom Engineering Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in telecommunications engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular telecommunications engineering programs in the United States.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Telcom Engineering Major in Texas” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Telcom Engineering Major in Texas”.
Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Telecommunications Engineering in Texas
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Telcom Engineering Major in Texas list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 33 ’s telcom engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Telecommunications Engineering at Southern Methodist University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Dallas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Telcom Engineering Major in Texas list. Located in Richardson, Texas, this large public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified ’s telcom engineering students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Telecommunications Engineering at UT Dallas
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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.
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