2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s

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 Washington for a Master’s” 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.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s” 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 in Washington for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s”.

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

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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 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school handed out 42 diplomas to qualified masters’s materials engineering students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

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Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

#3 overall quality in Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in Washington for a Master’s. Wazzu is a public institution located in Pullman, Washington. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% 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 more about Materials Engineering at Washington State University

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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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