2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major

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In 2020-2021, 302 people earned their degree in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician, making the major the 923rd most popular in the United States.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician. That schools that top this list have a program in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree plastics and polymer engineering tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology

1

Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern Michigan University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major. This fairly large school is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and it awarded 8 masters’s plastics and polymer engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Eastern Michigan Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology Report

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Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#13 overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cornell University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major. Cornell is located in Ithaca, New York and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s plastics and polymer engineering tech degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology at Cornell University

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

• *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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