2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

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Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s

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

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

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

Top 25% overall quality in New England

$69,167 Average Early-Career Earnings

$27,000 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s list. This large school is located in Storrs, Connecticut, and it awarded 38 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%.

Full University of Connecticut Materials Engineering Report

2

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 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the New England Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology landed the #2 spot on the list. MIT is a fairly large school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that handed out 24 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 98%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Materials Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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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