Most Popular Schools for Nuclear Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems for controlling and manipulating nuclear energy, including nuclear power plant design, fission reactor design, fusion reactor design, reactor control and safety systems design, power transfer systems, containment vessels and structures design; and the analysis of related engineering problems such as fission and fusion processes, human and environmental factors, construction, and operational considerations.

Rank	School Name	Students	% of Total	Total On-Campus Cost
1	Texas A & M University-College Station	86	1%	$29,506
2	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville	79	1%	$31,510
3	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus	78	1%	$36,652
4	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	53	0%	$30,102
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	48	0%	$30,298
6	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	47	1%	$33,503
7	University of California-Berkeley	41	0%	$38,066
8	Oregon State University	40	1%	$26,892
9	University of Wisconsin-Madison	39	0%	$26,025
10	Missouri University of Science and Technology	38	1%	$22,440
11	North Carolina State University at Raleigh	36	0%	$23,977
12	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus	35	1%	$28,776
13	United States Naval Academy	30	3%	N/A
14	Purdue University-Main Campus	28	0%	$22,822
15	Idaho State University	23	1%	$21,548
16	University of New Mexico-Main Campus	23	0%	$22,639
17	University of Florida	22	0%	$21,211
18	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	21	1%	$70,240
19	United States Military Academy	20	2%	N/A
20	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	19	1%	$71,998
21	Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management	9	2%	N/A
22	Colorado School of Mines	6	0%	$35,498
23	Ohio State University-Main Campus	6	0%	$27,367
24	University of South Carolina-Columbia	6	0%	$28,301
25	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	5	0%	$26,834
26	South Carolina State University	5	1%	$30,060
27	Pennsylvania State University-World Campus	4	0%	$15,828
28	Kansas State University	3	0%	$24,923
29	University of Utah	3	0%	$24,472
30	University of Missouri-Columbia	2	0%	$26,766
31	University of Idaho	2	0%	$21,350
32	Washington State University	2	0%	$27,484
33	Arizona State University-Skysong	2	0%	$27,521

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Nuclear Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.