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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 189 people earned their degree in metallurgical engineering, making the major the 319th most popular in the United States. In , metallurgical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $67,658 and had an average of $25,184 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 34 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,588 and $20,490 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in metallurgical engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in metallurgical engineering.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southwest Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, LeTourneau University landed the #1 spot on the list. LETU is located in Longview, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 11 bachelors’s metallurgical engineering degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at El Paso. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. The University of Texas at El Paso is located in El Paso, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 22 bachelors’s metallurgical engineering degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 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%.
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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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