2025 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
208Materials 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for general materials engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 208 degrees in general materials engineering annually.
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 Pennsylvania list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for General Materials Engineering in Pennsylvania
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 Pennsylvania Schools in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
84Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
University of Pennsylvania is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in general materials engineering. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were about 84 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in general materials engineering needs to look into University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 6th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 30 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent data year.
35Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
Drexel University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in general materials engineering. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 10th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 35 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year.
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.
