2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region

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In 2020-2021, 3,415 people earned their degree in materials engineering, making the major the 154th most popular in the United States. 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.

Across the New England region, there were 192 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,006 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in materials engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their materials engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree materials engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the New England Region

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 overall quality in New England

$80,203 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 24 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Massachusetts Institute of Technology Materials Engineering Report

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

$69,167 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 38 degrees to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Connecticut

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering

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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