2024 Best Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region
74Colleges in the Southeast Region
39,517Engineering Degrees Awarded
$65,774Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #7 out of 38 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 74 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 39,517 degrees in engineering during the 2021-2022 academic year.
The engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Engineering in the Southeast Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the engineering degree levels they offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
Duke University is a good choice for students interested in a degree in engineering. Duke is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Durham. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were about 646 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent year we have data available. Engineering degree recipients from Duke University receive an earnings boost of around $14,425 above the typical earnings of engineering graduates.
Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in engineering. Georgia Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Atlanta. A Best Colleges rank of #24 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Georgia Tech is a great school overall.
There were roughly 3429.9999999999995 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Georgia Tech in the most recent year we have data available. Engineering degree recipients from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus get an earnings boost of approximately $12,464 over the typical earnings of engineering graduates.
Vanderbilt University is a good choice for students interested in a degree in engineering. Located in the city of Nashville, Vanderbilt is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #19 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Vanderbilt is a great university overall.
There were roughly 341 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Vanderbilt in the most recent data year. After graduation, engineering degree recipients typically earn about $67,505 at the beginning of their careers.
Every student who is interested in engineering needs to look into University of Virginia - Main Campus. Located in the small suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 761 engineering students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent year we have data available. Those engineering students who get their degree from University of Virginia - Main Campus make $9,029 more than the standard engineering student.
UF is a very large public university located in the city of Gainesville. A Best Colleges rank of #58 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were approximately 2151 engineering students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent year we have data available. Those engineering students who get their degree from University of Florida receive $6,934 more than the typical engineering grad.
Virginia Tech is a very large public school located in the small city of Blacksburg. A Best Colleges rank of #62 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Virginia Tech is a great school overall.
There were approximately 2111 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the engineering program at Virginia Tech earn $5,495 above the standard college graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Located in the city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #43 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were about 155 engineering students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent data year. After graduation, engineering degree recipients generally earn around $56,387 in the first five years of their career.
Located in the large city of Raleigh, NC State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #92 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means NC State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 2302 engineering students who graduated with this degree at NC State in the most recent year we have data available. Engineering degree recipients from North Carolina State University get an earnings boost of approximately $2,864 above the average income of engineering majors.
Clemson is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Clemson. A Best Colleges rank of #107 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Clemson is a great university overall.
There were roughly 1474 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Clemson in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the engineering program report average early career income of $67,587.
Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 40 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were roughly 1411 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, engineering degree recipients typically make an average of $66,591 at the beginning of their careers.
Located in the city of New Orleans, Tulane is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #78 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Tulane is a great university overall.
There were approximately 107 engineering students who graduated with this degree at Tulane in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, engineering degree recipients usually make around $63,325 in the first five years of their career.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Engineering Schools in the Southeast Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
The engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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