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2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
11 Degrees Awarded
$56,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master's in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 948 people earned their degree in nuclear engineering, making the major the 233rd most popular in the United States. 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 Massachusetts, there were 33 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,240 and $41,137 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nuclear engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nuclear engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Massachusetts For Those Getting Aid. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a fairly large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 11 masters’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

MIT also made our “Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are $56,719.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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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