2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering Technology in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 220 people earned their degree in nuclear engineering technology, making the major the 315th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, nuclear engineering technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $84,153 and had an average of $13,289 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 3 nuclear engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 nuclear engineering technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,723 and $22,140 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nuclear engineering technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their nuclear engineering technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region associate degree nuclear engineering tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering Technology in the Plains States Region

1

Bismarck State College
Bismarck, North Dakota

Top 10% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bismarck State College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region. BSC is a small school located in Bismarck, North Dakota that handed out 3 associates’s nuclear engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Alexandria Technical & Community College
Alexandria, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alexandria Technical & Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Tech Major in the Plains States Region list. Alexandria, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s nuclear engineering tech degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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.