2024 Best Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
2Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
84Metallurgical Engineering Degrees Awarded
$68,679Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in metallurgical engineering. It is ranked #319 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for metallurgical engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 84 degrees in metallurgical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The metallurgical engineering school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Metallurgical Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Best Schools for Metallurgical Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region
The schools below may not offer all types of metallurgical engineering degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Metallurgical Engineering
Colorado School of Mines is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in metallurgical engineering. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a medium-sized student population.
Students who receive their degree from the metallurgical engineering program earn an average of $68,679 for their early career.
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).