Ceramic Engineering degree programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major ranks #343 out of the 395 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for ceramic engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 100 degrees in ceramic engineering annually.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Ceramic Engineering Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Ceramic Engineering in the United States
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the ceramic engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a great decision for students interested in a degree in ceramic engineering. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the small city of New Brunswick.
Graduates who receive their degree from the ceramic engineering program make about $69,162 in the first couple years of their career.
Missouri University of Science and Technology is a great choice for students interested in a degree in ceramic engineering. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Rolla.
Ceramic Engineering degree recipients from Missouri University of Science and Technology receive an earnings boost of about $4,601 above the typical earnings of ceramic engineering majors.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
