by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Other Engineering is the 177th most popular major in the country with 2,760 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, other engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $75,713 and had an average of $25,106 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 540 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,839 and $22,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 98 other engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 11 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in other engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The other engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree other engineering students.
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Louisiana Tech University landed the #1 spot on the list. Louisiana Tech University is a public institution located in Ruston, Louisiana. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 31 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Mississippi State University is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 48 bachelors’s other engineering degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Norfolk State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Norfolk, Virginia, this medium-sized public school handed out 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other engineering students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s other engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alabama in Huntsville. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Huntsville, Alabama is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other engineering degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
University of the Cumberlands ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Cumberlands is located in Williamsburg, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s other engineering degrees to qualified students.
Elon University landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Elon University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Elon, North Carolina. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. UT Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s other engineering degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Furman University ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Furman is a small school located in Greenville, South Carolina that handed out 0 bachelors’s other engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. 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%.
With a ranking of #7, University of North Carolina at Wilmington did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. UNCW is a fairly large public school situated in Wilmington, North Carolina. It awarded 0 bachelors’s other engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%.
Carson - Newman University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Other Engineering Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Jefferson City, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other engineering students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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