2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Materials Engineering is the 199th most popular major in the country with 3,476 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the New England region, there were 205 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 54 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general materials engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general materials engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree materials processing and manufacturing students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major in the New England Region. This fairly large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full MIT General Materials Engineering Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major in the New England Region. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees to 24 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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