2024 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
137Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$80,203Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in materials engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #154 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 137 degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of materials engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in Massachusetts
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the materials engineering degree levels they offer.
Top Massachusetts Schools in Materials Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were about 59 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the materials engineering program state that they receive average early career wages of $80,203.
Boston University is a good decision for students interested in a degree in materials engineering. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston. This university ranks 6th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 37 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat Worcester Polytechnic Institute if you want to pursue a degree in materials engineering. WPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Worcester. This school ranks 5th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 31 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at WPI in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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