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Ranked Colleges
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 189 people earned their degree in general metallurgical engineering, making the major the 831st most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 23 general metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 general metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in general metallurgical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree general metallurgical engineering students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Alabama. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. The University of Alabama is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s general metallurgical engineering degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
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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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