2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
151Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,977Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #154 in the country in terms of popularity. 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 New York to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 151 degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.
The materials engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Materials Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Engineering Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in New York
The schools below may not offer all types of materials engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in materials engineering needs to check out Cornell University. Located in the small city of Ithaca, Cornell is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Cornell is a great university overall.
There were about 66 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Cornell in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute if you wish to pursue a degree in materials engineering. Located in the 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 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at RPI in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the materials engineering program state that they receive average early career income of $66,927.
Every student pursuing a degree in materials engineering has to look into Stony Brook University. SUNY Stony Brook is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Stony Brook. This university ranks 14th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 18 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at SUNY Stony Brook in the most recent year we have data available.
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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The materials engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Materials Engineering rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
