2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in North Dakota

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in North Dakota” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Engineering is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 198,468 degrees were awarded to students with this major. 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 North Dakota, there were 788 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,920 and $25,331 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,116 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in North Dakota” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in North Dakota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in North Dakota”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in North Dakota

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North Dakota State University - Main Campus
Fargo, North Dakota

#1 overall quality in North Dakota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Dakota State University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in North Dakota list. Fargo, North Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s engineering degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.

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%.

Full North Dakota State University Engineering Report

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

#2 overall quality in North Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Engineering Major in North Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #2 spot on the list. UND is a fairly large public school situated in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It awarded 16 doctorate’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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