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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

5 Ranked Colleges
174 Degrees Awarded
$13,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 287th most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $65,100 and had an average of $25,167 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 174 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent polymer and plastics engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

#1

University of Wisconsin - Stout

Menomonie, Wisconsin

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Stout landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Menomonie, Wisconsin, this medium-sized public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UW - Stout, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of Wisconsin - Stout is $10,695 for bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Wisconsin - Stout

#2

Western Washington University

Bellingham, Washington

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Washington University landed the #2 spot on the list. Western Washington University is a public institution located in Bellingham, Washington. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students whose families make $0-$30k list, WWU has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for WWU is $9,743 for Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Western Washington University

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #3 spot on the list. UMass Lowell is located in Lowell, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 50 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees to qualified students.

UMass Lowell did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Massachusetts - Lowell is $11,560 for Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at UMass Lowell

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cleveland, Ohio. It awarded 20 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Case Western, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. It costs about $18,708 for Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Case Western.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Case Western Reserve University

#5

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #5 spot on the list. Auburn University is a public institution located in Auburn, Alabama. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Auburn not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. It costs about $18,394 for bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Auburn University.

The student loan default rate at the school is 2.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Auburn University Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

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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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