2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region

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General Systems Engineering is the 209th most popular major in the country with 3,802 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Plains States region, there were 106 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 29 general systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general systems engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general systems engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree general systems engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Systems Engineering in the Plains States Region

1

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 24 bachelors’s general systems engineering degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Systems Engineering at Washington University in St Louis

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Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Missouri State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on General Systems Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. Southeast Missouri State University is located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s general systems engineering degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Southeast Missouri State University General Systems Engineering Report

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.

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