2025 Best Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

If you plan on getting your master's degree in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #108 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 55 master's degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to materials engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other materials engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt materials engineering students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized materials engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for materials engineering students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank 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 Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Materials Engineering in Massachusetts

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in materials engineering.

Top Massachusetts Schools for a Master's in Materials Engineering

1

Boston University
Boston, MA

37 Annual Graduates

Boston University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in materials engineering. Located in the large city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.More information about a master’s in materials engineering from Boston University

2

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA

12 Annual Graduates

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a great option for students pursuing a master's degree in materials engineering. Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a master’s in materials engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Best Materials Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Materials Engineering Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	153	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Materials Engineering

Materials Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Materials Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Materials Engineering	55

Majors Similar to Materials Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Computer Engineering	908
Electrical Engineering	613
Mechanical Engineering	455
Other Engineering	364
Systems Engineering	263
General Engineering	242
Robotics Engineering	224
Biomedical Engineering	186
Civil Engineering	175
Engineering Science	114

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Panoramedia. More about our data sources and methodologies.