2025 Best General Engineering Schools in Louisiana
3Colleges in Louisiana
135Engineering Degrees Awarded
$77,930Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #79 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Engineering Schools in Louisiana ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 135 degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Engineering Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the engineering degree levels they offer.
McNeese State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the small city of Lake Charles, McNeese is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 12th out of 30 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were roughly 37 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at McNeese in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, engineering degree recipients usually make about $75,566 at the beginning of their careers.
Louisiana Tech University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the distant town of Ruston, Louisiana Tech is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 30 schools for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were roughly 34 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Louisiana Tech in the most recent data year.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a great choice for students interested in a degree in general engineering. UL Lafayette is a large public university located in the medium-sized city of Lafayette. A Best Colleges rank of #1297 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UL Lafayette is a great university overall.
There were approximately 40 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UL Lafayette in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
