2025 Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Schools in the New England Region
2Colleges in the New England Region
129Polymer Engineering Degrees Awarded
$73,733Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in polymer & plastics engineering. It is ranked #293 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 129 degrees in polymer & plastics engineering to qualified students.
The polymer 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 Polymer & Plastics Engineering Schools in the New England Region.
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Best Schools for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the New England Region
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 polymer engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top New England Region Schools in Polymer Engineering
It's difficult to beat University of Massachusetts - Lowell if you want to pursue a degree in polymer & plastics engineering. Located in the suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a large student population.
Those polymer & plastics engineering students who get their degree from University of Massachusetts - Lowell earn $3,759 more than the average polymer engineering grad.
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).
