2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,008 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $103,408 and $26,000 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 systems engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,076 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in systems engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in systems engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree systems engineering students.
Top 4 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Systems Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Stevens Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Stevens Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit institution located in Hoboken, New Jersey. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 10 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, 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.
Full Stevens Institute of Technology Systems Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 11 doctorate’s systems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Systems Engineering at George Washington University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. RPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Troy, New York. It awarded 2 doctorate’s systems engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full RPI Systems Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Systems Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Ithaca, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s systems engineering degrees to 93 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Full Cornell University Systems Engineering Report
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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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