Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #7 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,398 degrees in engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Engineering Schools in Kentucky list to help you make the college decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student pursuing a degree in engineering needs to take a look at University of Kentucky. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #230 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were roughly 649 engineering students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $60,280.
University of Louisville is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in engineering. UofL is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Louisville. This university ranks 2nd out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 594 engineering students who graduated with this degree at UofL in the most recent data year. Engineering degree recipients from University of Louisville earn a boost of about $4,782 over the average earnings of engineering graduates.
Western Kentucky University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in engineering. WKU is a large public university located in the small city of Bowling Green. This university ranks 7th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 112 engineering students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, engineering degree recipients generally make about $59,384 at the beginning of their careers.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering rankings. For our Best Overall Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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