2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ceramic Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ceramic Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 100 people earned their degree in ceramic engineering, making the major the 343rd most popular in the United States. In , ceramic engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $61,614 and had an average of $24,141 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 57 ceramic engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,920 and $24,885 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 ceramic engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,902 and $128,547 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ceramic Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in ceramic engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in ceramic engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ceramic Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region doctor’s degree ceramic engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Ceramic Engineering in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ceramic Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. New Brunswick, New Jersey is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s ceramic engineering degrees to 4 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Ceramic Engineering Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Alfred University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Alfred, New York, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s ceramic engineering students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.