2024 Best Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Alabama
4
Colleges in Alabama
12
Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in
materials engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #40 out of 306 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 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 12 doctor's degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.
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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 good 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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for materials engineering students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Alabama ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.