Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus

If you are interested in studying nuclear engineering, you may want to check out the program at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Georgia Tech is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 39,771. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received their master's degree in nuclear engineering.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Nuclear Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Georgia Tech Nuclear Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Nuclear Engineering

Georgia Tech Nuclear Engineering Rankings

There were 7 students who received their doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering, making the school the #9 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Nuclear Engineering Student Demographics at Georgia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the nuclear engineering majors at Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Georgia Tech Nuclear Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 9 students who earned a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2020-2021, 78% were men and 22% were women.

Of the students who received a nuclear engineering master's degree from Georgia Tech, 67% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the nuclear engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 33% of degree recipients. That is 18% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus with a master's in nuclear engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Engineering Mechanics
• Robotics Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Careers That Nuclear Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in nuclear engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,740	$142,240
Engineering Professors	360	$96,180

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Disavian under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.