2023 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering in District of Columbia

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In 2020-2021, 198,468 engineering students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 689 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,386 and $26,038 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering.

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Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia engineering students.

Top 4 Most Focused Colleges for Engineering in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

$55,014 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,760 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia list. This medium-sized school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 160 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering at Catholic University of America

2

University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

$44,806 Average Early-Career Earnings

$35,324 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the District of Columbia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia. University of the District of Columbia is a small school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 47 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Engineering at University of the District of Columbia

3

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

$50,572 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,989 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s engineering degrees to 96 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

Full Howard Engineering Report

4

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

$65,148 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,120 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Major in District of Columbia. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 386 ’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Engineering at GWU

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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%.

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.

Credits

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