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2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

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2 Degrees Awarded
$58,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

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 “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 102 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,767 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nuclear engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering (Income $75-$110k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Troy, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s nuclear engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at RPI, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at RPI are $58,325, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at RPI

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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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