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2023 Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s

1 Ranked Colleges
23 Degrees Awarded
$65,618 Avg Salary
Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in Illinois for a Bachelor's

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 “Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Illinois, there were 39 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,618 and $20,925 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 nuclear engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in nuclear engineering.

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Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s

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

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s. Located in Champaign, Illinois, this large public school awarded 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s nuclear engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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