You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Nuclear Engineering Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general nuclear engineering students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.3% 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%.
Full Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Nuclear Engineering Report