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Most Popular Schools for Nuclear Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems for controlling and manipulating nuclear energy, including nuclear power plant design, fission reactor design, fusion reactor design, reactor control and safety systems design, power transfer systems, containment vessels and structures design; and the analysis of related engineering problems such as fission and fusion processes, human and environmental factors, construction, and operational considerations.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Texas A & M University-College Station 86 1% $29,506
2 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 79 1% $31,510
3 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 78 1% $36,652
4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 53 0% $30,102
5 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 48 0% $30,298
6 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 47 1% $33,503
7 University of California-Berkeley 41 0% $38,066
8 Oregon State University 40 1% $26,892
9 University of Wisconsin-Madison 39 0% $26,025
10 Missouri University of Science and Technology 38 1% $22,440
11 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 36 0% $23,977
12 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 35 1% $28,776
13 United States Naval Academy 30 3% N/A
14 Purdue University-Main Campus 28 0% $22,822
15 Idaho State University 23 1% $21,548
16 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 23 0% $22,639
17 University of Florida 22 0% $21,211
18 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 21 1% $70,240
19 United States Military Academy 20 2% N/A
20 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 19 1% $71,998
21 Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management 9 2% N/A
22 Colorado School of Mines 6 0% $35,498
23 Ohio State University-Main Campus 6 0% $27,367
24 University of South Carolina-Columbia 6 0% $28,301
25 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 5 0% $26,834
26 South Carolina State University 5 1% $30,060
27 Pennsylvania State University-World Campus 4 0% $15,828
28 Kansas State University 3 0% $24,923
29 University of Utah 3 0% $24,472
30 University of Missouri-Columbia 2 0% $26,766
31 University of Idaho 2 0% $21,350
32 Washington State University 2 0% $27,484
33 Arizona State University-Skysong 2 0% $27,521

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Nuclear Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.