2024 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
203Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in general materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #199 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 203 degrees in general materials engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great General Materials Engineering School
The materials processing and manufacturing program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Materials Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
General Materials Engineering Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for General Materials Engineering in Illinois
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 processing and manufacturing degree levels they offer.
Top Illinois Schools in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
82Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
Northwestern University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in general materials engineering. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Evanston. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were about 82 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
109Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in general materials engineering. Located in the small city of Champaign, UIUC is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 3rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 109 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent data year.
Illinois Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in general materials engineering. Located in the city of Chicago, Illinois Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population. This school ranks 9th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 12 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Illinois Tech in the most recent data year.
Rankings in Majors Related to Materials Processing and Manufacturing
General Materials Engineering is one of 0 different types of Materials Engineering programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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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The materials processing and manufacturing program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for General Materials Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall General Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
