2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Nuclear Engineering in the New England Region
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 860 people earned their degree in general nuclear engineering, making the major the 468th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 40 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general nuclear engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree general nuclear engineering students.
Top 1 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Nuclear Engineering in the New England Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Nuclear Engineering Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 10 masters’s general nuclear engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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- 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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