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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking.

General Engineering Science is the 342nd most popular major in the country with 1,454 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 137 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 general engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general engineering science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank General Engineering Science Schools

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

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

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

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

1

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Orleans. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region list. UNO is a medium-sized public school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 7 doctorate’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering Science at UNO

2

University of Mississippi
University, Mississippi

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. University, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s engineering science degrees to 8 students 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.

Full Ole Miss General Engineering Science Report

3

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about General Engineering Science at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

4

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.

Full The University of Tennessee - Knoxville General Engineering Science Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering Science

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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Nicolás Pérez.