2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Textile Engineering in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Textile Engineering is the 298th most popular major in the country with 310 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, textile engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $50,568 and had an average of $26,000 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 304 textile engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $50,568 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 211 textile engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree textile engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Textile Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

$45,374 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the #1 spot on the list. NC State is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 211 bachelors’s textile engineering degrees to qualified students.

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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full NC State Textile Engineering Report

2

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s textile engineering degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read full report on Textile Engineering at Georgia Tech

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Textile 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.

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