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

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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 Idaho, there were 49 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $68,028 and $21,139 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,135 and $0 respectively.

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

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for idaho master’s degree materials engineering students.

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

1

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#3 overall quality in Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Idaho. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Idaho. This fairly large school is located in Moscow, Idaho, and it awarded 3 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Idaho

2

Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

#1 overall quality in Idaho

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boise State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Engineering Major in Idaho. Boise State University is a large school located in Boise, Idaho 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 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Boise State

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region
• Most Focused Master’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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