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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

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 “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Southeast region, there were 43 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #1 spot on the list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s polymer engineering degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Auburn did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $24,079 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Polymer Engineering students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Auburn.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn University

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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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