2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in the Southwest Region

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Nuclear Engineering is the 253rd most popular major in the country with 864 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, nuclear engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $59,111 and had an average of $22,196 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 122 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,571 and $22,004 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 73 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nuclear engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in nuclear engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nuclear Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

Texas A&M University - College Station
College Station, Texas

#7 overall quality in Southwest

$70,571 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,004 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 60 bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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

2

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Top 25% overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s nuclear engineering students in 2020-2021.

Full UNM Nuclear Engineering Report

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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