by our College Data Analytics TeamThe main focus area for this major is General Nuclear Engineering. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Nuclear Engineering is a major offered under the engineering program of study at United States Military Academy. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in nuclear engineering, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. The nuclear engineering major at West Point is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Nuclear Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.
Here are some of the other rankings for West Point.
Online degrees for the West Point nuclear engineering bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the West Point Online Learning page.
About 17.6% of the students who received their BS in nuclear engineering in 2019-2020 were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 17.4%.
Around 29.4% of nuclear engineering bachelor’s degree recipients at West Point in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 27%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 2 |
| Black or African American | 2 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 11 |
| International Students | 1 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Nuclear Engineering students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Nuclear Engineering | 17 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to nuclear engineering.
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering | 30 |
| Civil Engineering | 32 |
| Electrical Engineering | 17 |
| Environmental Engineering | 9 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 77 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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