2023 Best Nuclear Engineering Master's Degree Schools
Finding the Best Nuclear Engineering Master's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 864 people earned a degree or certificate in nuclear engineering, making the major the #254 most popular in the United States.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Nuclear Engineering Master's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 23 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.
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2023 Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the United States
Check out the nuclear engineering master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.
Top 10 Best Nuclear Engineering Master's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best school in the United States for nuclear engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public college with a very large student population.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas A&M University - College Station. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a fairly large student population.
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A rank of #4 on this year’s list means North Carolina State University is a great place for nuclear engineering students working on their master’s degree. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Raleigh.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools list. UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Madison.
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With a ranking of #6, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did quite well on this year’s best schools for nuclear engineering students working on their master’s degree. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.
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Purdue University - Main Campus came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.
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University of California - Berkeley landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree nuclear engineering programs. UC Berkeley is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.
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Virginia Tech came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Nuclear Engineering Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nuclear engineering students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the city of Troy, RPI is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.
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Nuclear Engineering Related Rankings by Major
One of 40 majors within the area of study, nuclear engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Nuclear Engineering
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | 46,178 |
| Electrical Engineering | 28,844 |
| Civil Engineering | 21,388 |
| Computer Engineering | 17,987 |
| Chemical Engineering | 12,917 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 23 schools only.
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- 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).
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