2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in Washington

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Washington” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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.

Across Washington, there were 135 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,959 and $22,513 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 45 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,852 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Washington” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Washington”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in Washington

1

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#1 overall quality in Washington

$72,394 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s materials engineering degrees to 42 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UW Seattle Materials Engineering Report

2

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Washington State University is a large school located in Pullman, Washington that handed out 3 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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%.

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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

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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