2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in Missouri

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Systems Engineering is the 160th most popular major in the country with 3,904 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, systems engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $89,736 and had an average of $21,799 in loans still to pay off.

Across Missouri, there were 131 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,035 and $20,450 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,023 and $28,243 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in systems engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in systems engineering.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in Missouri

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Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Missouri

$73,035 Average Early-Career Earnings

$20,450 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. WUSTL is a private not-for-profit institution located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read full report on Systems Engineering at WUSTL

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Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

#23 overall quality in Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Southeast Missouri State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Southeast Missouri State University is a medium-sized school located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri that handed out 2 bachelors’s systems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Systems Engineering at Southeast Missouri State University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Plains States Region
• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering

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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