2025 Best Nuclear Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
50Doctor's Degrees
Nuclear Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #96 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of nuclear engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 50 doctor's degrees in nuclear engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on nuclear engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of 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.
Student Debt - How easy is it for nuclear engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nuclear engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for nuclear engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Nuclear Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
