2025 Best General Nuclear Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools
6Colleges in the United States
171Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in general nuclear engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #106 out of 862 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 6 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for general nuclear engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 171 doctor's degrees in general nuclear engineering during the <nil> academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Nuclear Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
The general nuclear engineering doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general nuclear engineering program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general nuclear engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general nuclear engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general nuclear engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general nuclear engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Nuclear Engineering Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Nuclear Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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General Nuclear Engineering Related Rankings by Major
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Notes and References
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).