2024 Best General Engineering Schools in Louisiana
3Colleges in Louisiana
135Engineering Degrees Awarded
$64,056Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in general engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #79 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Engineering Schools in Louisiana ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 135 degrees in general engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 General Engineering Schools in Louisiana list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the engineering degree levels they offer.
Louisiana Tech University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the town of Ruston, Louisiana Tech is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1151 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Louisiana Tech is a great university overall.
There were about 34 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at Louisiana Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
McNeese State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general engineering. Located in the small city of Lake Charles, McNeese is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 12th out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were approximately 37 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at McNeese in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, engineering degree recipients generally make an average of $64,056 at the beginning of their careers.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in general engineering. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Lafayette. This university ranks 9th out of 29 colleges for overall quality in the state of Louisiana.
There were roughly 40 general engineering students who graduated with this degree at UL Lafayette 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 general engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
