Metallurgical Engineeringbachelor's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #277 out of the 363 majors we look at each year. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for metallurgical engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 33 bachelor's degrees in metallurgical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on metallurgical engineering students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other metallurgical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for metallurgical engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized metallurgical engineering related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for metallurgical engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Metallurgical Engineering Schools
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 Metallurgical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Metallurgical Engineering in the Southwest Region
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering.
Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Metallurgical Engineering
It is difficult to beat The University of Texas at El Paso if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering. Located in the city of El Paso, UTEP is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Soon after graduation, metallurgical engineering bachelor's recipients usually earn about $61,588 at the beginning of their careers.
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).