2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s” 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 145 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,230 and $21,139 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 60 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,089 and $26,296 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in materials engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in materials engineering.

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Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 3 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region

1

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah

#9 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$42,076 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, this large public school handed out 27 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full U of U Materials Engineering Report

2

Boise State University
Boise, Idaho

#17 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

$68,028 Average Early-Career Earnings

$21,139 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boise State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Boise, Idaho, this large public school awarded 26 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Boise State University Materials Engineering Report

3

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#21 overall quality in Rocky Mountains

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Idaho. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in the Rocky Mountains Region for a Bachelor’s list. U of I is a fairly large public school situated in Moscow, Idaho. It awarded 7 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% 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%.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Idaho

• Most Popular Bachelor’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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