2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 198,468 engineering students received their degree, making the major the 7th most popular in the country. In 2019-2020, engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $68,653 and had an average of $23,855 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 699 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,172 and $22,349 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 510 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,581 and $29,351 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Nebraska

1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska list. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 499 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Engineering Report

2

Doane University
Crete, Nebraska

#12 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Doane University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Crete, Nebraska, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Doane University Engineering Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering

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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