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2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
106 Degrees Awarded
$9,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Nuclear Engineering is the 233rd most popular major in the country with 948 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, nuclear engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $61,244 and had an average of $23,833 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 231 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,733 and $21,632 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 106 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in nuclear engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great nuclear engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the nuclear engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Florida. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Gainesville, Florida, this large public school handed out 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s nuclear engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UF, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $1,994 for southeast region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UF.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at University of Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 19 bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia Tech also made our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $9,162 for southeast region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

The student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Tech

#3

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The yearly cost to attend North Carolina State University is $7,285 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Nuclear Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full NC State Nuclear Engineering Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees to 43 students in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville also made our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #3. It costs about $10,224 for southeast region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend UT Knoxville.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

#5

South Carolina State University

Orangeburg, South Carolina

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Carolina State University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k. South Carolina State University is a small public school situated in Orangeburg, South Carolina. It awarded 4 bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at South Carolina State University, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South Carolina State University is $19,630 for southeast region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at South Carolina State 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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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