2025 Best Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
192Nuclear Engineering Degrees Awarded
$76,233Avg Early-Career Salary
Nuclear Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #253 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of nuclear engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 192 degrees in nuclear engineering annually.
The nuclear engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Nuclear Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for nuclear engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Nuclear Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the nuclear engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Nuclear Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison is a great choice for students interested in a degree in nuclear engineering. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were roughly 31 nuclear engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in nuclear engineering. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 45 nuclear engineering students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent data year. Nuclear Engineering degree recipients from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign receive an earnings boost of around $4,901 above the average earnings of nuclear engineering graduates.
It is difficult to beat University of Michigan - Ann Arbor if you wish to pursue a degree in nuclear engineering. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were about 56 nuclear engineering students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent data year.
Purdue University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in nuclear engineering. Purdue is a very large public university located in the small city of West Lafayette. This university ranks 3rd out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were roughly 37 nuclear engineering students who graduated with this degree at Purdue in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the nuclear engineering program earn around $63,226 in the first couple years of working.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The nuclear engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Nuclear Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for nuclear engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
