by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in West Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Engineering Science is the 205th most popular major in the country with 1,454 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, engineering science graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $76,473 and had an average of $22,601 in loans still to pay off.
Across West Virginia, there were 4 engineering science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in West Virginia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering science.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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 Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in West Virginia” 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. 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 west virginia engineering science students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Shepherd University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and it awarded 3 ’s engineering science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Engineering Science at Shepherd University
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Engineering Science Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Wheeling University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Wheeling, West Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified ’s engineering science students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
