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2022 Best Vallue Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making Over $110k

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19 Degrees Awarded
$22,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in North Carolina For Those Making Over $110k

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 “Best Vallue Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Nuclear Engineering is the 233rd most popular major in the country with 948 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, nuclear engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,244 and had an average of $23,833 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 57 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $19,753 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,192 and $24,368 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nuclear engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nuclear engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering (Income Over $110k) in North Carolina

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in North Carolina For Those Making Over $110k list. Raleigh, North Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. It costs about $16,458 for north carolina bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend NC State.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low student loan default rate of 2.9% 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%.

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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