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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
33 Degrees Awarded
$11,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 330 people earned their degree in polymer and plastics engineering, making the major the 287th most popular in the United States. 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.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 33 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,083 and $22,209 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great polymer and plastics engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The polymer 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 “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k”.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region

#1

Western Washington University

Bellingham, Washington

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region For Those Making $30-$48k. WWU is located in Bellingham, Washington and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 33 bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees to qualified students.

WWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. The yearly cost to attend WWU is $11,228 for Far Western US Region Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

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 more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at WWU

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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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