If you plan on majoring in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #154 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Ohio ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 169 degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.
The materials engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Materials Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Engineering Schools in Ohio ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of materials engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Ohio State University - Main Campus is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in materials engineering. Located in the city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #70 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Ohio State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 94 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Ohio State in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the materials engineering program make about $70,371 in their early career salary.
University of Dayton is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the city of Dayton, UDayton is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 91 colleges for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were roughly 26 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UDayton in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in materials engineering has to look into University of Cincinnati - Main Campus. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were about 13 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UC in the most recent data year.
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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The materials engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Materials Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
