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. 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 Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Nuclear Engineering is the 468th most popular major in the country with 860 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 189 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 96 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general nuclear engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general nuclear engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree general nuclear engineering students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend South Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. South Carolina State University is a small school located in Orangeburg, South Carolina that handed out 11 bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
Full South Carolina State University General Nuclear Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. UT Knoxville is a large school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 42 bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Nuclear Engineering at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Atlanta, Georgia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees to 15 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus General Nuclear Engineering Report
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #4 spot on the list. NC State is a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 16 bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the #5 spot on the list. UF is a large school located in Gainesville, Florida that handed out 12 bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on General Nuclear Engineering at University of Florida
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