2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Engineering is the 96th most popular major in the country with 9,018 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Nebraska, there were 71 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,581 and $29,351 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Nebraska

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Doane University
Crete, Nebraska

#12 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Doane University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska list. Doane Crete is located in Crete, Nebraska and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s engineering degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Doane University General Engineering Report

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska list. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 48 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

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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 Rémi Kaupp.