2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Nanotechnology is the 965th most popular major in the country with 104 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 28 nanotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 nanotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nanotechnology. That schools that top this list have a program in nanotechnology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nanotechnology in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region list. Rice University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 11 masters’s nanotech degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Full Rice Nanotechnology Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. This large school is located in Tempe, Arizona, and it awarded 0 masters’s nanotech degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe Nanotechnology Report
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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%.
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- *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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