2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 the Southwest region, there were 119 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,800 and $22,250 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nuclear engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nuclear engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the nuclear engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree nuclear engineering students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 in overall quality

$19,890 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nuclear engineering degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

UNM also made our “Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNM are $19,890, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at UNM

#2

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$22,743 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$86,867 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Texas A&M College Station is located in College Station, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 16 masters’s nuclear engineering degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas A&M College Station, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas A&M University - College Station are $22,743, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Texas A&M College Station Nuclear Engineering Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering (With Aid)

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

• *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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