2024 Best General Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
12
Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
103
Doctor's Degrees
Ranked #36 in popularity,
general materials engineering is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 12 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for general materials engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 103 doctor's degrees in general materials engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Materials Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of general materials engineering for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general materials engineering students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of general materials engineering students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general materials engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general materials engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Materials Engineering Schools
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 General Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.