Other Reasons to Choose Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M!

The students here are the best in the world! The students at A&M are magic: you will be amazed how friendly people are and how many friends you'll make in the first week. It's the biggest "small" campus in the world.

• Essentially all of our graduates receive job offers. The average starting salary for B. S. graduates is $60,000 (plus signing bonuses in many cases)
• Scholarships up to $10,000 are awarded to top students ($2,500/year for 4 years).
• The faculty to student ratio is about 1:10, thus allowing smaller classes and providing more personal interaction between the professors and students.
• Texas A&M is the only school in Texas offering an undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering.
• The department assists students in finding summer employment related to nuclear engineering or health physics. In fact, we have assurance from some employers that all freshmen in good standing are guaranteed summer jobs
• Texas A&M has an active Cooperative Training program. Qualified students have alternate periods in school and work in the nuclear industry, leading to a degree in about 5 years. The students’ salaries help pay school expenses and a majority of these companies offer jobs to co-op students upon graduation.
• Many of our B. S. students elect to continue their studies here to receive a M.S. or Ph.D. degree. Financial support is provided for almost all graduate students.