2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
208Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,977Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in materials engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #154 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 208 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. For our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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 Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in Pennsylvania
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the materials engineering degree levels they offer.
Any student who is interested in materials engineering has to look into University of Pennsylvania. UPenn is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #2 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were approximately 84 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
Any student pursuing a degree in materials engineering needs to check out University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. Pitt is a fairly large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh. This university ranks 6th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 30 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Drexel University if you want to pursue a degree in materials engineering. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 10th out of 103 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 35 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Drexel in the most recent data year. Those materials engineering students who get their degree from Drexel University make $3,629 more than the typical materials engineering graduate.
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. For our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
