2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems Engineering in the Plains States Region

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General Systems Engineering is the 209th most popular major in the country with 3,904 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 162 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general systems engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular general systems engineering programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree general systems engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems Engineering in the Plains States Region

1

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s general systems engineering degrees to 39 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full WUSTL General Systems Engineering Report

2

Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Missouri State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southeast Missouri State University is located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s general systems engineering degrees to qualified students.

Full Southeast Missouri State University General Systems Engineering Report

• Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems 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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