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Most Popular Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

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2023 Most Popular Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

1 College
$59,111 Avg Salary
$21,760 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's Degree 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 Most Popular Nuclear Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. This report analyzed 1 schools in Illinois to see which ones were the most popular bachelor's degree programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Nuclear Engineering program at each school on the list.

The school below is the most popular for nuclear engineering majors pursuing a bachelor's degree.

Our analysis found University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to be the most popular school for nuclear engineering students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Illinois. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public college with a very large student population.

About 9% of the students majoring in nuclear engineering at the school are women while 91% are male.

While working on their Bachelor's Degree, nuclear engineering majors at UIUC accumulate an average of around $18,288 in student debt.

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Best Nuclear Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Most Popular 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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