Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that made our Best Nuclear Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Nuclear Engineering School for Your Master's Degree

The nuclear engineering master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to nuclear engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other nuclear engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt nuclear engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 master's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Rocky Mountains Region

Regrettably , we did not have sufficient info to form a ranking of the quality colleges for nuclear engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that both offer nuclear engineering and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Nuclear Engineering rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Nuclear Engineering ranking.

Best Nuclear Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best nuclear engineering schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Colorado	185	3
Utah	164	3
Idaho	96	8

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Rankings in Majors Related to Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Nuclear Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Nuclear Engineering	13

Majors Similar to Nuclear Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	424
Mechanical Engineering	358
Civil Engineering	205
General Engineering	199
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	168
Systems Engineering	86
Biomedical Engineering	77
Chemical Engineering	72
Computer Engineering	66
Materials Engineering	48

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Siemens Pressebild. More about our data sources and methodologies.