by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 360 people earned their degree in polymer and plastics engineering, making the major the 293rd most popular in the United States. 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in polymer and plastics engineering.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Akron Main Campus is a public institution located in Akron, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of Akron Main Campus Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s 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 #2 spot on the list. Case Western is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Cleveland, Ohio. It awarded 6 masters’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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a large school located in Ann Arbor, Michigan that handed out 0 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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