This page contains key outcome data for the Nuclear Engineering Major, estimated using US Census data. See the methodology here. For more on the College Majors Data Dashboard click here.
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Overall Major Information
- Field: STEM
- Average Income: $83,000 (Rank: 3 of 173)
- 25% Make Less Than: $48,000
- Unemployment Rate: 2.20% (Rank: 19 of 171)
- Percent Female: 18.2%
- Percent Who Get a Masters Degree: 40.4%
- Percent Who Get a Professional Degree: 5.0%
- Percent Who Get a PhD: 13.3%
- Major Popularity Ranking: 156 of 173
- Major Difficulty (1-5): 3.27 (Rank: 17 of 118)
Careers Information
This list provides the 25 most common careers (occupations) among people in this major, and how much they earn within each occupation.
- Engineers, : 16.14% (Average Income: $82,000)
- Power Plant Operators, Distributors, and Dispatchers: 11.27% (Average Income: $127,000)
- Military, Rank Not Specified: 4.53% (Average Income: $83,000)
- First-Line Enlisted Military Supervisors: 3.94% (Average Income: $57,000)
- Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety: 3.53% (Average Income: $66,000)
- Mechanical Engineers: 3.23% (Average Income: $82,000)
- Military Officer Special and Tactical Operations Leaders: 3.21% (Average Income: $105,000)
- Civil Engineers: 2.85% (Average Income: $81,000)
- Managers, (including Postmasters): 2.78% (Average Income: $115,000)
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand: 2.11% (Average Income: $132,000)
- Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 1.97% (Average Income: $103,000)
- Astronomers and Physicists: 1.74% (Average Income: $113,000)
- Meeting and Convention Planners: 1.74% (Average Income: $46,000)
- Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers: 1.60% (Average Income: $94,000)
- Chemical Engineers: 1.46% (Average Income: $43,000)
- Computer Programmers: 1.36% (Average Income: $58,000)
- Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations, : 1.32% (Average Income: $63,000)
- Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians and Radio Operators, and media and communication equipment workers, all other: 1.30% (Average Income: $74,000)
- Shipping, Receiving, and Traffic Clerks: 1.27% (Average Income: $19,000)
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software: 1.23% (Average Income: $88,000)
- Human Resources Managers: 1.16% (Average Income: $104,000)
- Management Analysts: 1.13% (Average Income: $71,000)
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing: 1.12% (Average Income: $85,000)
- Physical Scientists, : 1.10% (Average Income: $32,000)
- Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics: 0.94%
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