2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering in Nebraska

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 “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Nebraska for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Nebraska for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular engineering programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Nebraska for a Bachelor’s

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

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

1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#1 overall quality in Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Nebraska for a Bachelor’s. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 499 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. 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%.

Full University of Nebraska - Lincoln Engineering Report

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Doane University
Crete, Nebraska

#12 overall quality in Nebraska

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Engineering Major in Nebraska for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Doane University landed the #2 spot on the list. Doane University is a small school located in Crete, Nebraska that handed out 11 bachelors’s engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%.

Full Doane University Engineering Report

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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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