2025 Best Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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 the Rocky Mountains Region 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 44 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 schools for materials engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Materials Engineering Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

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

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Materials Engineering

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

27 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in materials engineering needs to look into University of Utah. Located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in materials engineering from University of Utah

2

Boise State University
Boise, ID

15 Annual Graduates

Boise State University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in materials engineering. Boise State is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Boise.More information about a bachelor’s in materials engineering from Boise State University

Best Materials Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best materials engineering colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	204	27
Idaho	171	33

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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	44

Majors Similar to Materials Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	2,032
Civil Engineering	788
Electrical Engineering	527
Chemical Engineering	495
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	356
Computer Engineering	337
Biomedical Engineering	191
Environmental Engineering	169
Electrical and Computer Engineering.	149
General Engineering	106

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.