2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the New England 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Materials Sciences is the 265th most popular major in the country with 642 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , materials sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $64,925 and had an average of $23,224 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 13 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in materials sciences. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their materials sciences program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree materials science students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of New Hampshire - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the New England Region. University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 1 masters’s materials science degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Vermont. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the New England Region. Burlington, Vermont is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s materials science degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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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