2025 Best General Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
82Bachelor's Degrees
General Materials Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #192 most popular bachelor's 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 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for general materials engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 82 bachelor's degrees in general materials engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Materials Engineering School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of general materials engineering for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general materials engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general materials engineering students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general materials engineering related body.
Our full 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.
More Ways to Rank General Materials Engineering Schools
The materials processing and manufacturing 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 General Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Materials Engineering in the Plains States Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general materials engineering.
Top Plains States Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
General Materials Engineering Related Rankings by Major
One of 0 majors within the Materials Engineering area of study, General Materials Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.
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).