2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Michigan
3Colleges in Michigan
135Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,977Avg Early-Career Salary
Materials Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #154 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 135 degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Michigan list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in Michigan
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 materials engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were approximately 74 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, materials engineering degree recipients generally earn an average of $75,041 at the beginning of their careers.
It's hard to beat Michigan Technological University if you want to pursue a degree in materials engineering. Located in the town of Houghton, Michigan Tech is a public university with a medium-sized student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 33 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Michigan Tech in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the materials engineering program make an average of $63,135 in their early career salary.
Michigan State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 28 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the materials engineering major at Michigan State University get $2,299 above the typical college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.
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).
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Your choice of materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
