by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Engineering is the 79th most popular major in the country with 11,796 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, general engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,873 and had an average of $20,557 in loans still to pay off.
Across Tennessee, there were 134 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,137 and $23,875 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 37 general engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee”.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga landed the #1 spot on the list. Chattanooga, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tennessee State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s engineering degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Tennessee. Vanderbilt is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 10 masters’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, 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 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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