2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 340th most popular major in the country with 114 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, nanotechnology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $0 and had an average of $0 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 32 nanotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 nanotechnology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

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 is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 10 masters’s nanotech degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Nanotechnology at Rice

2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nanotech Major in the Southwest Region list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 3 masters’s nanotech degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Nanotechnology at Arizona State University - Tempe

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nanotechnology

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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