2025 Best Systems Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

a doctor's degree in systems engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #115 out of 306 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for systems engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 55 doctor's degrees in systems engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor'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 systems engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other systems engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 systems engineering students go into to obtain their doctor'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 systems engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for systems engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Systems Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Systems Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Systems Engineering in the Southeast Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in systems engineering.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Systems Engineering

1

University of Virginia - Main Campus
Charlottesville, VA

21 Annual Graduates

University of Virginia - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in systems engineering. University of Virginia is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville.More information about a doctorate in systems engineering from University of Virginia - Main Campus

2

University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA

11 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in systems engineering has to look into University of Louisiana at Lafayette. UL Lafayette is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Lafayette.More information about a doctorate in systems engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Best Systems Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best systems engineering colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	4
Virginia	127	16
Louisiana	103	7
Tennessee	102	0
Alabama	98	4

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Systems Engineering Related Rankings by Major

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

Systems Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Systems Engineering	55

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	528
Mechanical Engineering	295
Civil Engineering	286
Biomedical Engineering	283
General Engineering	209
Chemical Engineering	161
Materials Engineering	131
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	102
Computer Engineering	101
Industrial Engineering	92

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 luis gomes. More about our data sources and methodologies.