2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Materials Engineering is the 154th most popular major in the country with 3,476 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , materials engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $65,007 and had an average of $22,256 in loans still to pay off.
At the associate degree level specifically, there were 2 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,431 and $15,731 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in materials engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in materials engineering.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree materials engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering
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 Engineering Major. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s materials engineering degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full El Paso Community College Materials Engineering Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Salt Lake Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, this large public school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified associates’s materials engineering students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on 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
- *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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