2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving 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 a Doctorate Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Transportation & Materials Moving is the 33rd most popular major in the country with 29,084 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, transportation and materials moving graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $42,489 and had an average of $13,949 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 11,751 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,282 and $12,465 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 transportation and materials moving graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in transportation and materials moving. That schools that top this list have a program in transportation and materials moving in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree transportation & materials moving students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving in the Southeast Region

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide
Daytona Beach, Florida

#13 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southeast Region list. Daytona Beach, Florida is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s transportation and materials moving degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Transportation & Materials Moving at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide

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Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne, Florida

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Institute of Technology. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Transportation & Materials Moving Major in the Southeast Region. Florida Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit institution located in Melbourne, Florida. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Transportation & Materials Moving at Florida Tech

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Transportation & Materials Moving

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Alessandro Aceri.