2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for 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 Engineering Major” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Materials Engineering is the 154th most popular major in the country with 3,415 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, materials engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $65,007 and had an average of $23,030 in loans still to pay off.

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

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in materials engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in materials engineering.

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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

1

El Paso Community College
El Paso, Texas

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, El Paso Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. El Paso Community College is located in El Paso, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

Full El Paso Community College Materials Engineering Report

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Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, Utah

Top 20% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Salt Lake Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major list. Salt Lake Community College is a large school located in Salt Lake City, Utah that handed out 2 associates’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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

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.

Credits

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