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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Metallurgical Engineering is the 831st most popular major in the country with 189 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Plains States region, there were 28 general metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 general metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general metallurgical engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general metallurgical engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree general metallurgical engineering students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region. Rapid City, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general metallurgical engineering degrees to 10 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full SD Mines General Metallurgical Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized school located in Rolla, Missouri that handed out 12 bachelors’s general metallurgical engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full Missouri University of Science and Technology General Metallurgical Engineering Report
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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%.
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- *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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