2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Engineering Science is the 205th most popular major in the country with 1,422 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $76,473 and had an average of $21,804 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 158 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $15,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 49 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in engineering science. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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The engineering science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region”.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree engineering science students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Science in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Orleans landed the #1 spot on the list. University of New Orleans is a medium-sized school located in New Orleans, Louisiana that handed out 22 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Engineering Science at UNO
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mississippi. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region list. Ole Miss is a large school located in University, Mississippi that handed out 24 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
Read full report on Engineering Science at University of Mississippi
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region. Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering science degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Engineering Science at Louisiana State University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region list. UT Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 2 masters’s engineering science degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Engineering Science at UT Knoxville
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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.
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