2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$54,232
Avg Salary
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Southwest region, there were 324 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,232 and $22,750 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 96 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in materials engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in materials engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree materials engineering students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Southwest Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is a small public school situated in Socorro, New Mexico. It awarded 5 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read full report on Materials Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Texas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Denton, Texas, this large public school handed out 24 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Materials Engineering at University of North Texas
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arizona State University - Tempe. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region. ASU - Tempe is a public institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 37 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Materials Engineering at Arizona State University - Tempe
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - College Station. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in College Station, Texas, this large public school handed out 30 degrees to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Materials Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station
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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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