2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$54,232
Avg Salary
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Materials Engineering is the 154th most popular major in the country with 3,476 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , materials engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $65,007 and had an average of $22,256 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southwest region, there were 373 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,232 and $23,779 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 114 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,130 and $22,381 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in materials engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in materials engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Southwest Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Socorro, New Mexico, this small public school handed out 5 degrees to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Materials Engineering at New Mexico Tech
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school handed out 26 degrees to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of North Texas Materials Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arizona State University - Tempe. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 34 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Materials Engineering at Arizona State University - Tempe
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - College Station is a large public school situated in College Station, Texas. It awarded 49 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Materials Engineering at Texas A&M College Station
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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