2024 Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 179 people earned their degree in metallurgical engineering, making the major the 319th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, metallurgical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $67,658 and had an average of $21,462 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 36 metallurgical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,588 and $19,345 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in metallurgical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality metallurgical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the metallurgical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region metallurgical engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Metallurgical Engineering in the Southwest Region

1

LeTourneau University
Longview, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$23,665 Average Net Price

$46,801 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend LeTourneau University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region. Located in Longview, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified ’s metallurgical engineering students in 2020-2021.

LETU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $23,665 for southwest region metallurgical engineering students per year to attend LETU.

Full LETU Metallurgical Engineering Report

2

The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$9,000 Average Net Price

$44,186 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at El Paso. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region. El Paso, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s metallurgical engineering degrees to 23 students in 2020-2021.

UTEP did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at El Paso is $9,000 for southwest region metallurgical engineering students.

Read full report on Metallurgical Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso

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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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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