2025 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Michigan
3Colleges in Michigan
135Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #199 in the country in terms of popularity. 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 Michigan to determine which ones were the best for general materials engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 135 degrees in general materials engineering to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Materials Engineering School
Your choice of general materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General 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.
Pick Your General Materials Engineering Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Michigan ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Materials Engineering in Michigan
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 processing and manufacturing degree levels they offer.
Top Michigan Schools in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
74Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
Every student who is interested in general materials engineering has to take a look at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were roughly 74 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent data year.
33Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
Michigan Technological University is a great option for students interested in a degree in general materials engineering. Michigan Tech is a medium-sized public university located in the remote town of Houghton. This university ranks 3rd out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were roughly 33 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Michigan Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
Michigan State University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in general materials engineering. Michigan State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of East Lansing. This university ranks 2nd out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 28 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
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Your choice of general materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall General Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
