2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in New Jersey

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 New Jersey 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 New Jersey, there were 9 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in materials engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in materials engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s

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

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

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New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, New Jersey

#4 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s list. This fairly large school is located in Newark, New Jersey, and it awarded 2 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.

Full NJIT Materials Engineering Report

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Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey

#2 overall quality in New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevens Institute of Technology. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Materials Engineering Major in New Jersey for a Master’s list. Stevens is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Hoboken, New Jersey. It awarded 2 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Materials Engineering at Stevens 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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