2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in the New England Region
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Nuclear Engineering is the 253rd most popular major in the country with 860 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , nuclear engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $59,563 and had an average of $22,815 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 40 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in nuclear engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree nuclear engineering students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in the New England Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on 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. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s nuclear engineering degrees to 24 students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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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%.
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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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