2023 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Nuclear Engineering

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

Very few college students decide to study nuclear engineering. Each discipline hands out roughly 6,156 yearly undergrad degrees; 543 people last May were awarded undergrad degrees in nuclear engineering, making it the 269th most popular course of study in the nation. 86 of those degrees were conferred by Texas A & M University-College Station, which proudly has the largest department in the USA. 86 of those alumni attended college in Texas.

22 schools around the nation have undergrad degrees in nuclear engineering; therefore, it could possibly be difficult to choose the right program for you. Four-year degrees in nuclear engineering are 88.5% less broadly offered than the typical major, making it the 372nd most commonly offered concentration.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 56% of degrees in nuclear engineering last year were undergrad degrees; 44% were postgrad degrees. Nuclear engineering is the 190th most popular advanced degree in the USA, with 425 degrees granted. To put that in context, the average subject is 6.5 times more popular among postgrads than nuclear engineering.

In Total, 968 students received a bachelor's or higher in nuclear engineering last May.

ONLINE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING DEGREES

21 of those 968 students (2.2%) finished their schooling remotely - 0 undergraduate students and 21 graduate students. It is the 208th most popular online graduate degree, and 96.6% below the national average (616).

PARTIALLY ONLINE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING DEGREES

• Nuclear engineering is the 258th most common partially online college degree in the US
• 18 institutions in the nation grant a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering partially online
• Last spring, 158 people received a bachelor's or higher in nuclear engineering partially online
• 0.6% of South Carolina State University's​ last undergraduate class majored in nuclear engineering partially online, higher than any other US institution
• Nuclear engineering is the 204th most popular partially online master's or doctor's degree in the USA
• On average, each course of study had about 1,368 partially online undergraduate degrees last year

IN-PERSON NUCLEAR ENGINEERING DEGREES

• Nuclear engineering is the 267th most popular totally in-person four-year degree in America
• Nuclear engineering is the 247th most broadly offered in-person college degree in America
• Last spring, 789 people earned a bachelor's or higher in nuclear engineering completely in-person
• Texas A & M University-College Station​ granted 75 in-person bachelor's degrees in nuclear engineering, more than any other U.S. school
• 86.35% of all postgraduate degrees in nuclear engineering are done in-person