2023 Most Popular Colleges for Materials Engineering in Colorado

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Materials Engineering is the 154th most popular major in the country with 3,415 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, materials engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $65,007 and had an average of $23,030 in loans still to pay off.

Across Colorado, there were 49 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Colorado” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in materials engineering. To top this list, a school must have a successful materials engineering program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado materials engineering students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Materials Engineering in Colorado

1

Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado

#1 overall quality in Colorado

$72,191 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,861 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Colorado School of Mines landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Golden, Colorado, this medium-sized public school handed out 20 degrees to qualified ’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, 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 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Mines Materials Engineering Report

2

University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado

#2 overall quality in Colorado

$48,893 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,305 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Colorado Boulder is a large school located in Boulder, Colorado that handed out 15 ’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at CU - Boulder

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *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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