2024 Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
192Materials Engineering Degrees Awarded
$71,006Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #154 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of materials engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 192 degrees in materials engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for materials engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Materials Engineering in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of materials engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Materials Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in materials engineering. MIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were roughly 59 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent data year. Those materials engineering students who get their degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology make $9,197 more than the standard materials engineering graduate.
Any student who is interested in materials engineering needs to check out University of Connecticut. UCONN is a very large public university located in the suburb of Storrs. This university ranks 2nd out of 28 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 55 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the materials engineering program state that they receive average early career earnings of $69,167.
Any student who is interested in materials engineering has to check out Boston University. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 37 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent year we have data available.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in materials engineering. Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #53 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means WPI is a great school overall.
There were about 31 materials engineering students who graduated with this degree at WPI 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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