Materials Engineering is about average in terms of popularity for bachelor's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #144 out of the 338 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2022 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the most popular for materials engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 bachelor's degrees in materials engineering during the 2019-2020 academic year.
We have also developed a number of other rankings to help guide you in your decision-making process.
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Most Popular Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Materials Engineering in the New England Region
Below you'll see a list of the most popular colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in materials engineering.
Most Well Attended Schools for Materials Engineering Students Working on Their Bachelor's
University of Connecticut is a popular choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in materials engineering. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Storrs. This isn't the only ranking where the school placed. It's also #1 in quality for bachelor's degrees in materials engineering in Connecticut.
Soon after graduating, materials engineering bachelor's recipients typically make around $60,200 at the beginning of their careers.
Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in materials engineering has to check out Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Cambridge. Potential students might also be interested to know that the school ranks #1 in quality for bachelor's degrees in materials engineering in Massachusetts.
Bachelor's recipients from the materials engineering major at Massachusetts Institute of Technology get $2,050 above the typical college graduate with the same degree when they enter the workforce.
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).
