Systems Engineering isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #160 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of systems engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 227 degrees in systems engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of systems engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for systems 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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Systems Engineering Schools in Virginia list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the systems engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student pursuing a degree in systems engineering needs to take a look at University of Virginia - Main Campus. University of Virginia is a very large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 167 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the systems engineering major at University of Virginia - Main Campus make $4,753 more than the average college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
George Mason University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in systems engineering. GMU is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Fairfax. This university ranks 5th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were approximately 47 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at GMU in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the systems engineering program report average early career wages of $84,357.
Any student who is interested in systems engineering has to check out Virginia Tech. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a very large student population. This school ranks 2nd out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were approximately 6 systems engineering students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of systems engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for systems engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
