2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

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 Southwest Region” 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 Southwest region, there were 119 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,800 and $22,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 80 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nuclear engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nuclear engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the nuclear engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in the Southwest Region

#1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#2 in overall quality

$14,446 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Mexico - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UNM is a large public school situated in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It awarded 11 bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students list, UNM has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UNM is $14,446 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Nuclear Engineering students.

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#2

Texas A&M University - College Station

College Station, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,057 Average Net Price

$67,995 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school awarded 69 degrees to qualified bachelors’s nuclear engineering students in 2019-2020.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #1 spot in our “Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M College Station is $19,057 for southwest region bachelor’s degree nuclear engineering students.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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%.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station

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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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