2023 Most Focused Colleges for Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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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.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 21 plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in plastics and polymer engineering technology/technician.

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Schools Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region plastics and polymer engineering tech students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Pennsylvania College of Technology
Williamsport, Pennsylvania

$45,580 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,229 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Penn College is a small school located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania that handed out 6 ’s plastics and polymer engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Penn College Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology Report

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Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

#5 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

$65,907 Average Early-Career Earnings

$15,079 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Plastics and Polymer Engineering Tech Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cornell University landed the #2 spot on the list. Cornell University is a large school located in Ithaca, New York that handed out 1 ’s plastics and polymer engineering tech degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology at Cornell University

• Most Focused Colleges for Plastics & Polymer Engineering Technology

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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