Best Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Colleges in Alabama

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Alabama that made our Best Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Alabama list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Materials Engineering School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of materials engineering for getting your doctor'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. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on materials engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other materials engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor'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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for materials engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized materials engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for materials engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for Alabama

As a result of absent data, we could not provide you with the materials engineering quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Alabama that both offer materials engineering and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Materials Engineering rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Materials Engineering ranking.

Best Materials Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Materials Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	31
Virginia	127	19
Georgia	126	37
North Carolina	115	14
Mississippi	113	3
Tennessee	102	20
South Carolina	91	4
Kentucky	87	2
Arkansas	58	1

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Materials Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Materials Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Materials Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Materials Engineering	12

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Civil Engineering	32
Mechanical Engineering	30
Electrical Engineering	29
Computer Engineering	28
Chemical Engineering	17
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	13
Industrial Engineering	9
Biomedical Engineering	7
Systems Engineering	7
Polymer & Plastics Engineering	3

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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Panoramedia. More about our data sources and methodologies.