2024 Best General Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
3Colleges in the Southwest Region
96Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #192 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 reviewed 3 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of general materials engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 96 bachelor's degrees in general materials engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Materials Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The materials processing and manufacturing bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality materials processing and manufacturing program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general materials engineering students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general materials engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general materials engineering related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general materials engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Materials Engineering in the Southwest Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general materials engineering.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
Rankings in Majors Related to Materials Processing and Manufacturing
General Materials Engineering is one of 0 different types of Materials Engineering programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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).