2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Virginia for a Doctorate

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

Across Virginia, there were 649 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,633 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Virginia for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in general engineering.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Virginia for a Doctorate

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

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Engineering in Virginia

1

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia

#14 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Old Dominion University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Virginia for a Doctorate list. This large school is located in Norfolk, Virginia, and it awarded 23 doctorate’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Engineering at Old Dominion University

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

#8 overall quality in Virginia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Virginia for a Doctorate list. Richmond, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s engineering degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University

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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.