by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on CE Major in Kentucky” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Computer Engineering is the 56th most popular major in the country with 17,987 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, computer engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $73,143 and had an average of $24,685 in loans still to pay off.
Across Kentucky, there were 162 computer engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,425 and $24,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 117 computer engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,941 and $26,734 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on CE Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in computer engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their computer engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on CE Major in Kentucky” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky bachelor’s degree ce students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on CE Major in Kentucky list. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this large public school handed out 73 degrees to qualified bachelors’s CE students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on CE Major in Kentucky list. UK is a large school located in Lexington, Kentucky that handed out 43 bachelors’s CE degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on CE Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Bellarmine University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Louisville, Kentucky, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s CE degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% 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%.
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