2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
General Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 663rd most popular major in the country with 360 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 139 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general polymer amd plastics engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general polymer amd plastics engineering.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree polymer engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the New England Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Full UMass Amherst General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region list. UMass Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 2 doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.
Read more about General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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