2023 Schools for a Master’s 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 325 people earned their degree in general polymer & plastics engineering, making the major the 663rd most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 129 general polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 51 general polymer & plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in general polymer & plastics engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in general polymer & plastics engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree polymer engineering students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region list. This fairly large school is located in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it awarded 42 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% 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
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 9 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on General Polymer & Plastics Engineering at UMass Amherst
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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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