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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
174 Degrees Awarded
$22,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 330 people earned their degree in polymer and plastics engineering, making the major the 287th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $65,100 and had an average of $25,167 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 174 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality polymer and plastics engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering (With Aid)

#1

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Stout. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid. UW - Stout is a medium-sized school located in Menomonie, Wisconsin that handed out 7 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Stout not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Wisconsin - Stout is $15,839 for bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Wisconsin - Stout Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

#2

Western Washington University

Bellingham, Washington

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Western Washington University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Western Washington University is located in Bellingham, Washington and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 33 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees to qualified students.

WWU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Western Washington University is $16,529 for Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at WWU

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school awarded 50 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMass Lowell, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $19,119 for Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students with aid per year to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Full University of Massachusetts - Lowell Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

#4

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Auburn is a large school located in Auburn, Alabama that handed out 1 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Auburn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $24,104 for Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students with aid per year to attend Auburn University.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Cleveland, Ohio, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 20 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

Case Western did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $35,428 for bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid per year to attend Case Western Reserve University.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Case Western Reserve University

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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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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