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2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$16,522 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 5 degrees and certificates were awarded to nuclear engineering students who went to a Virginia college or university. This makes it the #252 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate School

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

Our analysis found Virginia Tech to be the best value school for nuclear engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Virginia. Located in the city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Virginia Tech graduate students pay an average of $16,522 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Virginia Tech is ranked #2 for overall quality for nuclear engineering in Virginia.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at Virginia Tech

Best Value Nuclear Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 32
North Carolina 40
Florida 16
Tennessee 67
South Carolina 7

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 values are for the top school only.

  • 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.

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