You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Bachelor's Degree in nuclear engineering. It is ranked #219 out of 363 major degree programs in terms of popularity. This may make is a little harder to find a school that is a good fit for you.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 38 bachelor'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 bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 bachelor'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 much debt nuclear engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 bachelor's degree.
The nuclear engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region.
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Oregon State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering. Located in the small city of Corvallis, Oregon State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the nuclear engineering program earn an average of $69,657 for their early career.
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
