You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in nuclear engineering technology. It is ranked #315 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for nuclear engineering technology students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 220 degrees in nuclear engineering technology to qualified students.
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 Nuclear Engineering Technology Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Nuclear Engineering Technology in the United States
The schools below may not offer all types of nuclear engineering tech degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Excelsior University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in nuclear engineering technology. Excelsior University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Albany.
Graduates who receive their degree from the nuclear engineering tech program make around $84,153 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).