2025 Best Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #145 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of materials engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 24 bachelor's degrees in materials engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to materials engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other materials engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt materials engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• 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 bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Materials Engineering Schools

The materials engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in Alabama.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Materials Engineering in Alabama

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in materials engineering.

Top Alabama Schools for a Bachelor's in Materials Engineering

1

Auburn University
Auburn, AL

10 Annual Graduates

Auburn University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in materials engineering. Located in the small city of Auburn, Auburn is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in materials engineering from Auburn University

2

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

14 Annual Graduates

$69,498 Median Starting Salary

University of Alabama at Birmingham is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in materials engineering. UAB is a very large public university located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the materials engineering program make around $69,498 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in materials engineering from University of Alabama at Birmingham

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	225	61
Georgia	224	55
Tennessee	220	21
North Carolina	213	31
Virginia	213	66
South Carolina	195	44
Kentucky	187	27

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Rankings in Majors Related to Materials Engineering

Materials Engineering is one of 41 different types of Engineering programs to choose from.

Materials Engineering Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Materials Engineering	24

Majors Similar to Materials Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	711
Civil Engineering	344
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	302
Electrical Engineering	286
Chemical Engineering	262
Computer Engineering	209
Architectural Engineering	162
Industrial Engineering	131
Biomedical Engineering	59
Biological Engineering	50

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.