by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Surveying Engineering is the 351st most popular major in the country with 73 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, surveying engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $56,146 and had an average of $27,000 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 12 surveying engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,062 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 surveying engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in surveying engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in surveying engineering.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree surveying engineering students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Ferris State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ferris State University is located in Big Rapids, Michigan and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 10 bachelors’s surveying engineering degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan Technological University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Surveying Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s list. Michigan Tech is a medium-sized school located in Houghton, Michigan that handed out 2 bachelors’s surveying engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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