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.
There was only one school in Iowa to review for the 2025 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Iowa ranking.
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 Iowa ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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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.
Every student pursuing a degree in materials engineering needs to check out Iowa State University. Iowa State is a very large public university located in the city of Ames.
Students who graduate with their degree from the materials engineering program report average early career wages of $65,831.
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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