2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in Ohio

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Ohio, there were 59 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,359 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in Ohio

1

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 #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio list. Located in Akron, Ohio, this fairly large public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified masters’s polymer engineering students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Akron Main Campus

2

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio

#1 overall quality in Ohio

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Case Western Reserve University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Ohio list. Case Western Reserve University is a fairly large school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 6 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Case Western Reserve University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Great Lakes Region
• Most Focused Master’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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