2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
155Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,977Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in materials engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #154 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of materials engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 155 degrees in materials engineering annually.
Your choice of materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in Massachusetts
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the materials engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Massachusetts Schools in Materials Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were approximately 76 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the materials engineering program make about $65,919 for their early career.
Boston University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in materials engineering. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston. This university ranks 4th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 39 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Worcester Polytechnic Institute if you wish to pursue a degree in materials engineering. WPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Worcester. This school ranks 8th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 28 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at WPI in the most recent year we have data available.
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.
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Your choice of materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
