2025 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
151Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
A degree in general materials engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #199 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 151 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Materials Engineering Schools in New York list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for General Materials Engineering in New York
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 processing and manufacturing degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New York Schools in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
66Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
Every student pursuing a degree in general materials engineering has to take a look at Cornell University. Located in the city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were roughly 66 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent data year.
33Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
Any student who is interested in general materials engineering has to check out Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Located in the small city of Troy, RPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population. This school ranks 6th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 33 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at RPI in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Stony Brook University if you want to pursue a degree in general materials engineering. SUNY Stony Brook is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Stony Brook. This university ranks 14th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 18 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at SUNY Stony Brook 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
