Nuclear Engineering
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Early Career Income
$118,468
Lifetime Income
$6.79M
Unemployment rate
1.9%
Female share
11.5%
Occupation concentration
55.8%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
19.4%
% who double-major
15.3%
BA Graduates from 2024
431
+0.9% vs 2023
How Nuclear Engineering compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
99th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 99% of majors
81st
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 81% of majors
74th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 74% of majors
Top occupations
- Miscellaneous engineers, including nuclear engineers
- Power Plant Operators, Distributors, and Dispatchers
- Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Nuclear Engineering.
- Nuclear Engineering
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology