2024 Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama
3Colleges in Alabama
65Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
A degree in general materials engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #199 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for general materials engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 65 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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
The materials processing and manufacturing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama.
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Best Schools for General Materials Engineering in Alabama
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the materials processing and manufacturing degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Alabama Schools in Materials Processing and Manufacturing
31Materials Processing and Manufacturing Degrees Awarded
It is hard to beat Auburn University if you want to pursue a degree in general materials engineering. Auburn is a very large public university located in the small city of Auburn. A Best Colleges rank of #154 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Auburn is a great university overall.
There were approximately 31 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in general materials engineering has to look into University of Alabama at Birmingham. Located in the city of Birmingham, UAB is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 40 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were about 29 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UAB in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat Tuskegee University if you wish to pursue a degree in general materials engineering. Located in the town of Tuskegee, Tuskegee is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 26th out of 40 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were approximately 3 general materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Tuskegee 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for general materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
