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Most Popular General Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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2023 Most Popular General Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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Finding the Best General Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

General Engineering is the #64 most popular major in the country with 3,548 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, Grad Degree Search has developed this Most Popular General Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the General Engineering program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for engineering majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Our 2023 rankings named Texas A&M University - College Station the most popular school in the Southwest Region for general engineering students working on their graduate certificate. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of College Station.

About 57% of the students majoring in engineering at the school are women while 43% are male.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at The University of Texas at Austin helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular general engineering schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Of the 4 students majoring in engineering at UT Austin, 50% are male and 50% are female.

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#3

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Tech University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular General Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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Out of the 4 schools in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at El Paso landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large city of El Paso, UTEP is a public college with a very large student population.

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Best General Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best general engineering colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 147
Arizona 135
Oklahoma 62
New Mexico 56

General Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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 Rémi Kaupp.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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