2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Engineering Technologies is the 20th most popular major in the country with 85,188 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering technologies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $52,350 and had an average of $21,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 27,376 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,645 and $20,966 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 engineering technologies graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in engineering technologies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering technologies.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region”.

Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies in the Southeast Region

1

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Richmond, Virginia, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full VCU Engineering Technologies Report

2

Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina

#17 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Clemson University landed the #2 spot on the list. Clemson University is a public institution located in Clemson, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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 full report on Engineering Technologies at Clemson University

3

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region. This large school is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi, and it awarded 95 doctorate’s engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full Mississippi State University Engineering Technologies Report

3

Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Tech Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Institute of Technology landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Melbourne, Florida, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 50 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s engineering tech students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Engineering Technologies at Florida Institute of Technology

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Technologies

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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