2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 325 people earned their degree in general polymer & plastics engineering, making the major the 663rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 46 general polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 general polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Southeast Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. Southern Miss is a public institution located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Southern Miss General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #2 spot on the list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s polymer engineering degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read full report on General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #3 spot on the list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 9 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
Read more about General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Virginia Tech
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large public school situated in Knoxville, Tennessee. It awarded 0 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at UT Knoxville
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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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