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

2 Ranked Colleges
73 Degrees Awarded
$70,571 Avg Salary
Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor's

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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 “Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nuclear engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in nuclear engineering.

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Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s”.

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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large school located in College Station, Texas that handed out 60 bachelors’s nuclear engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station

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Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Nuclear Engineering Major in the Southwest Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a public institution located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The school has a large population, and it awarded 13 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nuclear Engineering at UNM

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