2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 293rd most popular major in the country with 360 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $62,838 and had an average of $26,051 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 71 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,222 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 25 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in polymer and plastics engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in polymer and plastics engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree polymer engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Great Lakes Region

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Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

#12 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #1 spot on the list. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cleveland, Ohio. It awarded 14 doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Case Western Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

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University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Akron Main Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Akron, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees to 11 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Akron Main Campus

• Most Focused Doctor’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

• *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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