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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

2 Ranked Colleges
27 Degrees Awarded
$25,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 647th most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 78 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general polymer amd plastics engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general polymer amd plastics engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general polymer amd plastics engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Stout. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Menomonie, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

UW - Stout did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. It costs about $15,839 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid per year to attend UW - Stout.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid list. Case Western is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees to qualified students.

Case Western also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $35,428 for Great Lakes Region Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students with aid per year to attend Case Western.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.

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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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