2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Far Western US Region

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 Far Western US Region” 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 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Far Western US Region

#1

Western Washington University

Bellingham, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$16,529 Average Net Price

$63,749 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Washington University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Bellingham, Washington, this fairly large public school awarded 33 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at WWU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for WWU is $16,529 for far western us region bachelor’s degree polymer engineering students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Western Washington University Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering

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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