2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

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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 doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 textile engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in textile engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in textile engineering.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

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

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

1

North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

#14 overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate 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 a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 28 doctorate’s textile engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full NC State Textile Engineering Report

2

Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus
Atlanta, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Textile Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is a large school located in Atlanta, Georgia that handed out 0 doctorate’s textile engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% 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%.

Full Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus Textile Engineering Report

• Most Focused Doctor’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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