2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
205Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,977Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #154 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 205 degrees in materials engineering annually.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of materials engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Materials Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a great option for students pursuing a degree in materials engineering. MIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were approximately 76 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, materials engineering degree recipients typically earn around $65,919 in their early careers.
Every student pursuing a degree in materials engineering needs to look into Boston University. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were about 39 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in materials engineering needs to check out University of Connecticut. UCONN is a fairly large public university located in the town of Storrs. This university ranks 3rd out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 48 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, materials engineering degree recipients generally make an average of $75,607 in their early careers.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the midsize city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population. This school ranks 8th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 28 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at WPI in the most recent year we have data available.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
