2024 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois
3Colleges in Illinois
203Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$64,436Avg Early-Career Salary
Materials Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #154 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 203 degrees in materials engineering to qualified students.
The materials engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Materials Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in Illinois
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the materials engineering degrees they offer, see the list below.
Northwestern University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in materials engineering. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 82 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent data year.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a good option for students interested in a degree in materials engineering. UIUC is a very large public university located in the city of Champaign. This university ranks 3rd out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 109 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, materials engineering degree recipients generally earn an average of $64,436 in the first five years of their career.
Illinois Institute of Technology is a great option for students interested in a degree in materials engineering. Illinois Tech is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago. This school ranks 9th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were roughly 12 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Illinois Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The materials engineering program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Materials Engineering rankings. We derive our Best Overall Materials Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
