2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering Technology

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 307 people earned their degree in nuclear engineering technology/technician, making the major the 652nd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 209 nuclear engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nuclear engineering technology/technician programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the nuclear engineering technology/technician program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Value Nuclear Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Nuclear Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nuclear Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering Technology

#1

Excelsior University

Albany, New York

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Tech Schools for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Excelsior University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Albany, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 209 degrees to qualified bachelors’s nuclear engineering tech students in 2019-2020.

Excelsior University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Nuclear Engineering Technology Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering Technology at Excelsior University

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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