2023 Most Well Attended Paper Engineering Major for a Doctorate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Paper Engineering Major for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Paper Science & Engineering is the 364th most popular major in the country with 27 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, paper science and engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $75,514 and had an average of $27,172 in loans still to pay off.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 paper science and engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Paper Engineering Major for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in paper science and engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular paper science and engineering programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Paper Engineering Major for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree paper engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Paper Science & Engineering

1

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Syracuse, New York

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Paper Engineering Major for a Doctorate list. Located in Syracuse, New York, this small public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s paper engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 more about Paper Science & Engineering at ESF

2

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Michigan University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Paper Engineering Major for a Doctorate. This fairly large school is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s paper engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Paper Science & Engineering at Western Michigan University

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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