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2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Trasportation Engineering

6 Ranked Colleges
13 Degrees Awarded
$36,500 Avg Cost*
Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate

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 “Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 131 people earned their degree in trasportation engineering, making the major the 914th most popular in the United States.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 trasportation engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in trasportation engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular trasportation engineering programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree transportation engineering students.

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New York University
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 5 degrees to qualified doctorate’s transportation engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate list. Newark, New Jersey is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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Morgan State University
Baltimore, Maryland

Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Morgan State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Morgan State University is a medium-sized school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 2 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Davis landed the #4 spot on the list. University of California - Davis is located in Davis, California and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate. RPI is located in Troy, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Trasportation Engineering Report

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Well Attended Transportation Engineering Major for a Doctorate ranking. This fairly large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s transportation engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Trasportation Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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