2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region

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 an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Nuclear & Radiological Technicians is the 324th most popular major in the country with 299 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, nuclear and radiological technicians graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $55,910 and had an average of $9,078 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 95 nuclear and radiological technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,469 and $5,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 nuclear and radiological technicians graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in nuclear and radiological technicians. That schools that top this list have a program in nuclear and radiological technicians in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree nuclear tech students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nuclear & Radiological Technicians in the Southeast Region

1

Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, North Carolina

Top 20% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Piedmont Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified associates’s nuclear tech students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nuclear & Radiological Technicians at Central Piedmont Community College

2

Cape Fear Community College
Wilmington, North Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cape Fear Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Wilmington, North Carolina, this fairly large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified associates’s nuclear tech students in 2020-2021.

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3

Wallace Community College, Dothan
Dothan, Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wallace Community College, Dothan. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Nuclear Tech Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Dothan, Alabama, and it awarded 0 associates’s nuclear tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nuclear & Radiological Technicians at Wallace, Dothan

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Nuclear & Radiological Technicians

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.