2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major for an Associate

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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 “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in materials engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular materials engineering programs in the United States.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering

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El Paso Community College
El Paso, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend El Paso Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major for an Associate list. El Paso Community College is a large school located in El Paso, Texas that handed out 2 associates’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

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 join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Salt Lake Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major for an Associate. Salt Lake Community College is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 associates’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

Read more about 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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