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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in Georgia (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
6 Degrees Awarded
$31,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Georgia, there were 33 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,700 and $24,644 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,934 and $102,100 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in Georgia (With Aid)

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 6 doctorate’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nuclear Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus are $31,334, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

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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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