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2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in Illinois

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$17,634 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,618 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nuclear Engineering School for You

Nuclear Engineering is the #216 most popular major in Illinois with 39 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Best Nuclear Engineering School

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for nuclear engineering students. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public school with a very large student population.

UIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $17,634 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that nuclear engineering majors at UIUC take out is $20,925.

UIUC also made our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #3.

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Best Value Nuclear Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 75
Ohio 18
Indiana 38
Wisconsin 39

Nuclear Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

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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