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2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

25 Colleges
$35,469 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$59,111 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nuclear Engineering School for You

Nuclear Engineering is the #185 most popular major in the country with 437 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 25 schools in the United States to see which programs offered the best value experiences for nuclear engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools in the United States

Check out the nuclear engineering programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Nuclear Engineering Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Texas A&M University - College Station the best value school in the United States for nuclear engineering students. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public college with a very large student population.

Texas A&M College Station undergraduate students pay an average of $38,855 in tuition and fees each year.

Texas A&M College Station excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list.

Full Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools list. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the large city of Madison.

UW - Madison undergraduate students pay an average of $38,608 in tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison also claimed a spot on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at University of Wisconsin - Madison

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools list. Located in the city of Atlanta, Georgia Tech is a public school with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Georgia Tech are $33,964 per year.

Georgia Tech also claimed a spot on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 1% of all schools in this category.

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Out of the 25 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, North Carolina State University landed the # 4 spot on the list. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Raleigh.

NC State undergraduate students pay an average of $29,916 in tuition and fees each year.

NC State excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list.

Full Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University Report

Out of the 25 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Berkeley landed the # 5 spot on the list. UC Berkeley is a fairly large public school located in the city of Berkeley.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UC Berkeley are $43,980 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UC Berkeley also did well on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at University of California - Berkeley

#5

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Purdue University - Main Campus is a great value for nuclear engineering students. Purdue is a fairly large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Purdue undergraduate students pay an average of $28,794 in tuition and fees each year.

Purdue also claimed a spot on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University - Main Campus

#7

Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS

Kansas State University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools list. K -State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Manhattan.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at K -State are $26,491 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, K -State is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Nuclear Engineering Schools list. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

UIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $37,632 in tuition and fees each year.

UIUC excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for nuclear engineering students. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

MIT undergraduate students pay an average of $55,878 in tuition and fees each year.

MIT not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list.

Full Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Report

University of Missouri - Columbia did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value schools for nuclear engineering students. It came in at #10 on the list. Mizzou is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Columbia.

Mizzou undergraduate students pay an average of $30,450 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Mizzou also did well on our Best Nuclear Engineering Schools list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Nuclear Engineering at University of Missouri - Columbia

Nuclear Engineering by Region

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New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Nuclear 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 25 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 Siemens Pressebild.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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