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2023 Most Popular Online Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools

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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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Online Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular online graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Naval Postgraduate School the most popular online school in the United States for nuclear engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Monterey, Naval Postgraduate School is a public school with a small student population.

About 19% of the students majoring in nuclear engineering at the school are women while 81% are male.

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The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at Texas A&M University - College Station helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best nuclear engineering schools in the United States. Located in the medium-sized city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Of the 6 students majoring in nuclear engineering at Texas A&M College Station, 67% are male and 33% are female.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Nuclear Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Rolla.

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Out of the 5 online programs at schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Air Force Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Engineering & Management landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the suburb of Wright-Patterson AFB, AFIT Graduate School of Engineering & Management is a public college with a small student population.

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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 5 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.

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