2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 9,018 people earned their degree in general engineering, making the major the 96th most popular in the United States.

Across Tennessee, there were 105 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,511 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Tennessee

1

Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, Tennessee

#13 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Tennessee Technological University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Cookeville, Tennessee, this medium-sized public school awarded 10 degrees to qualified doctorate’s engineering students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.

Read full report on General Engineering at Tennessee Tech University

2

University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

#11 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Memphis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee. University of Memphis is a public institution located in Memphis, Tennessee. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on General Engineering at UofM

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering

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.