2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
4Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
164Materials 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 4 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 164 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. 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.
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.
The materials engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Materials Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region
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.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Materials Engineering
Colorado School of Mines is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. Mines is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of Golden. A Best Colleges rank of #87 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Mines is a great school overall.
There were roughly 32 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mines in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Colorado Boulder is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in materials engineering. Located in the city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were about 34 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in materials engineering has to take a look at University of Utah. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 27 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat Boise State University if you want to pursue a degree in materials engineering. Boise State is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Boise. This university ranks 1st out of 10 colleges for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were roughly 38 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Boise State 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. 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.
