This article features top engineering colleges in Nevada that offer master and doctoral degrees in the fields of biological engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, etc. Please be informed that each school receives national wide rank as the ranking compares all engineering schools in the United States. Some important ranking factors include average GRE scores, alumni surveys, current student interviews, institutional research publications, and peer college assessment. In the following list of best engineering schools in the state of Nevada, you can see tuition cost for both in-state and out-of-state students, acceptable rates and admissions statistics for each top ranked engineering college.
| National Ranking | Nevada Top Engineering Programs |
| 140 | University of Nevada–Reno (Reno, NV) Overall acceptance rate: 45.8% Average GRE quantitative score (master’s and Ph.D. students): 710 Tuition: In-state, full-time: $277 per credit, Out-of-state, full-time: $1,032 per credit Total graduate engineering enrollment: 326 Research expenditures per faculty member: $251,210 Engineering school research expenditures (2010-2011 fiscal year): $15,072,641 Faculty membership in National Academy of Engineering: 0.0% |
| 186 | University of Nevada–Las Vegas (Hughes) (Las Vegas, NV) Overall acceptance rate: 64.2% Average GRE quantitative score (master’s and Ph.D. students): 713 Tuition: In-state, full-time: $4,833 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $18,428 per year Total graduate engineering enrollment: 218 Research expenditures per faculty member: $79,836 Engineering school research expenditures (2010-2011 fiscal year): $4,870,000 Faculty membership in National Academy of Engineering: 0.0% |
Christianity in the USA
The majority of believers in the United States of America are Christians. It was English Protestant Christians who created the first American colonies, later, thanks to Spanish and French influence, as well as immigration from Ireland and Italy, the number of Catholics increased significantly. Later, along with immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Orthodoxy also came to America.
It was in the United States that several Christian denominations were born, including Adventists, Pentecostals, Mormons, and others.
Modern American Christians are characterized by the presence of a large number of denominations. Predominant among them – Protestants – about forty-five percent of the US population, the second largest Christian church in the country – Catholics, about twenty percent of the US population.
| Largest denominations of the Christian Church in the USA | |
| confession | The number of parishioners relative to the total population |
| Protestants, including | about 45% |
| Baptists | about 15% |
| non-denominational Protestants | about 6% |
| Methodists | around 5% |
| Pentecostals | around 5% |
| Lutherans | about 4% |
| Presbyterians | about 2% |
| Catholics | about 20% |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) | about 1% |
| Jehovah witnesses | about 1% |
| Orthodox | about 1% |
The largest Christian religious organizations in the USA are the Catholic Church (about 70,000,000 people), the Southern Baptist Convention (over 17,000,000), the United Methodist Church (12,000,000).
The percentage of Christians among the US population is constantly decreasing, in 1990, about 85% of the population of the United States of America called themselves Christians, in 2001 – about 82%, in 2012 – about 78%, in 2017 – about 69% of US residents.