2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
General Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 663rd most popular major in the country with 325 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 50 general polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 general polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,415 and $23,858 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general polymer & plastics engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general polymer & plastics engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Wisconsin - Stout is a public institution located in Menomonie, Wisconsin. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UW - Stout General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #2 spot on the list. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 8 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees 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%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Akron, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Akron Main Campus
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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%.
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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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