2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Florida
3Colleges in Florida
183Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$75,977Avg Early-Career Salary
Materials Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #154 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Materials Engineering Schools in Florida ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 183 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. We derive our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
The materials engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Materials Engineering Schools in Florida.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the materials engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Florida is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. UF is a very large public university located in the city of Gainesville. A Best Colleges rank of #56 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were about 140 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent year we have data available. Those materials engineering students who get their degree from University of Florida receive $3,223 more than the standard materials engineering grad.
Any student who is interested in materials engineering has to check out University of Central Florida. Located in the suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 70 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 30 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UCF in the most recent data year.
Florida International University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the large suburb of Miami, FIU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 13th out of 70 schools for overall quality in the state of Florida.
There were roughly 4 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at FIU in the most recent data year.
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. We derive our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
