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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
General Metallurgical Engineering is the 831st most popular major in the country with 179 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 39 general metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 38 general metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general metallurgical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general metallurgical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region. This small school is located in Rapid City, South Dakota, and it awarded 18 bachelors’s general metallurgical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
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 General Metallurgical Engineering at SD Mines
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri University of Science and Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a public institution located in Rolla, Missouri. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Missouri University of Science and Technology General Metallurgical Engineering Report
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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%.
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- *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.
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