2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 3,904 people earned their degree in systems engineering, making the major the 160th most popular in the United States. 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 the Great Lakes region, there were 423 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $82,300 and $16,625 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region. Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management is a small school located in Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio that handed out 3 doctorate’s systems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management Systems Engineering Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s systems engineering degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Systems Engineering at Case Western
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Champaign, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s systems engineering degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Systems Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakland University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Rochester Hills, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s systems engineering degrees to 11 students 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%.
Read more about Systems Engineering at Oakland
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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
- *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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