2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Nuclear Engineering in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Nuclear Engineering is the 468th most popular major in the country with 864 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 122 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 general nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general nuclear engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful general nuclear engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree general nuclear engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Nuclear Engineering in the Southwest Region

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Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 60 bachelors’s general nuclear engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Texas A&M University - College Station General Nuclear Engineering Report

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University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended General Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 13 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general nuclear engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Nuclear Engineering at University of New Mexico - Main Campus

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Nuclear Engineering

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *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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