2024 Best General Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
10
Colleges in the Southwest Region
119
Master's Degrees
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
general materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #136 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 10 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best General Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 119 master's degrees in general materials engineering to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Materials Engineering School for Your Master's Degree
The materials processing and manufacturing master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master'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 master'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 master's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Materials Engineering Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.