2023 Schools for a Bachelor’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 has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 325 people earned their degree in polymer & plastics engineering, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States. In , polymer & plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $64,249 and had an average of $25,159 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Southeast region, there were 46 polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in polymer & plastics engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their 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 Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Southeast Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’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. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school handed out 16 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% 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 full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Southern Miss
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Auburn University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. Auburn is a public institution located in Auburn, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn
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
- *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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