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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking.
Metallurgical Engineering is the 319th most popular major in the country with 189 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , metallurgical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $67,658 and had an average of $25,184 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 3 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,948 and $20,385 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in metallurgical engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in metallurgical engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree metallurgical engineering students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Reno landed the #1 spot on the list. Reno, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s metallurgical engineering degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Far Western US Region list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 0 bachelors’s metallurgical engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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