Nuclear Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Nuclear engineers work with nuclear energy, nuclear waste, medical physics and more. They may also be active in design and nuclear research. These are the top graduate schools for nuclear engineering programs. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.7 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.6 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#3 | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 4.1 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#4 | Texas A&M University—College Station College Station, TX | 3.9 | $258 per credit (in-state, full-time); $681 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,469 | 164 | $282,798,000 | ||||||
#5Tie | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC | 3.8 | $8,088 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,610 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,303 | 164 | $188,960,115 | ||||||
#5Tie | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 3.8 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#7 | University of Tennessee—Knoxville (Tickle) Knoxville, TN | 3.7 | $12,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,252 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,118 | 160 | $70,692,000 | ||||||
#8 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.5 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#9Tie | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 3.4 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#9Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 3.4 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#11 | Oregon State University Corvallis, OR | 3.2 | $14,130 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,769 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,248 | 160 | $42,442,459 | ||||||
#12Tie | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.0 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#12Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 3.0 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#12Tie | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | 3.0 | $49,520 per year (full-time) | 646 | 164 | $53,892,000 | ||||||
#15 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 2.7 | $12,737 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,130 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,067 | 163 | $69,346,000 | ||||||
#16 | University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM | 2.6 | $261 per credit (in-state, full-time); $880 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 787 | 145 | $32,957,000 | ||||||
#17 | Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO | 2.5 | $9,288 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,766 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,127 | 156 | $24,974,630 | ||||||
#18 | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA | 2.4 | $14,532 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,644 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,338 | 162 | $128,303,167 | ||||||
#19 | Kansas State University Manhattan, KS | 2.2 | $403 per credit (in-state, full-time); $910 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 475 | 162 | $16,215,282 | ||||||
#20Tie | Air Force Institute of Technology Wright Patterson AFB, OH | 2.0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#20Tie | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO | 2.0 | $15,690 per year (in-state, full-time); $34,020 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,227 | 160 | $51,407,036 | ||||||
#20Tie | University of Massachusetts—Lowell (Francis) Lowell, MA | 2.0 | $14,304 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,853 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 983 | 158 | $16,921,323 | ||||||
#20Tie | University of Missouri Columbia, MO | 2.0 | $8,527 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,026 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 613 | 161 | $21,367,224 | ||||||
#20Tie | University of South Carolina Columbia, SC | 2.0 | $12,798 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,408 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 587 | 156 | $24,967,201 | ||||||
RNP | University of Idaho Moscow, ID | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |