2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Materials Engineering is the 199th most popular major in the country with 3,415 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,806 and $19,336 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general materials engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general materials engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering

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El Paso Community College
El Paso, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend El Paso Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major. El Paso Community College is a large public school situated in El Paso, Texas. It awarded 2 associates’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees in 2020-2021.

Full El Paso Community College General Materials Engineering Report

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Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, Utah

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Salt Lake Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Processing and Manufacturing Major. Salt Lake Community College is a large public school situated in Salt Lake City, Utah. It awarded 2 associates’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about General Materials Engineering at Salt Lake Community College

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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