by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana” ranking - to help you make that decision.
General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,534 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $68,578 and had an average of $22,777 in loans still to pay off.
Across Louisiana, there were 135 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,056 and $25,554 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,144 and $23,520 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in general engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana bachelor’s degree engineering students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Louisiana that were part of this year’s ranking, McNeese State University landed the #1 spot on the list. McNeese is a medium-sized school located in Lake Charles, Louisiana that handed out 32 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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