2
Ranked Colleges
22
Degrees Awarded
$72,706
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 189 people earned their degree in metallurgical engineering, making the major the 319th most popular in the United States. 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 Plains States region, there were 28 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,706 and $27,250 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states 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 Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Rapid City, South Dakota, this small public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s metallurgical engineering students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Metallurgical Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Missouri University of Science and Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Metallurgical Engineering Major in the Plains States Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Rolla, Missouri, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s metallurgical engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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%.
Read more about Metallurgical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Switch to a Different Ranking Method
Notes and References
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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
Credits
- Credit for the banner image above goes to {}.
