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2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$46,960 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$70,021 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nuclear Engineering School for You

Nuclear Engineering is the #254 most popular major in the country with 864 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for nuclear engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Colleges.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Nuclear Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for nuclear engineering students. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.

Pitt undergraduate students pay an average of $35,394 in tuition and fees each year. After completing their degree, nuclear engineering graduates from Pitt carry an average student debtload of $27,000.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Pitt also is in the top 20% of our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in the small city of Troy, RPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at RPI are $58,526 a year. Nuclear Engineering majors at RPI take out an average of $19,500 in student loans while working on their egree.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, RPI also is in the top 10% of our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.

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Best Nuclear Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best nuclear engineering schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 67
New York 43
Maryland 8

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 2 schools 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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