Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 11,254. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 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.

MIT Nuclear Engineering Degrees Available

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

MIT Nuclear Engineering Rankings

There were 13 students who received their doctoral degrees in nuclear engineering, making the school the #5 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Nuclear Engineering Student Demographics at MIT

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

MIT Nuclear Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 4 nuclear engineering students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from MIT, about 75% were men and 25% were women.

In the nuclear engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 25% of degree recipients. That is 9% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Environmental Engineering
• Operations Research
• Materials Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Biomedical 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 MA, the home state for Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Architectural and Engineering Managers	8,190	$156,250
Engineering Professors	1,880	$135,140

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 InSapphoWeTrust under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.