What is the difference between Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Nuclear and radiological engineering? I’m asking because while researching jobs, I saw that many of them asked for a Nuclear Engineering degree. MIT doesn’t have a Nuclear engineering degree, but it has a Nuclear Science and Engineering degree, and Georgia Tech has a Nuclear and Radiological Engineering Degree. Are these degrees just as valid as a Nuclear Engineering degree or are they completely different?
You can look at the courses and curricula to see what differences there may be in subarea emphases and the like.
Note that http://main.abet.org/aps/Accreditedprogramsearch.aspx lists both GT and MIT as having ABET-accreditation in those programs.
It’s just various names applied by each school that reflects the foci of the department. The base curriculum is the same.
@boneh3ad Do you know if employers treat the different programs differently?
They don’t. Again, it’s the same basic degree.
They care about the course content, not the title. Titles aren’t standardized across universities, and 4 people, each with one of the degrees listed or with an ME degree, might have identical skill sets or radically different skill sets depending on the school and their own academic focus. As long as the word “nuclear” or something similar appears in the degree title (even like “Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Nuclear Engineering”) you will be treated like a nuclear engineer.