2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the New England 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 New England region, there were 139 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,354 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 61 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” 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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree polymer engineering students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the New England Region

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University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region list. University of Massachusetts - Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 47 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%.

Full University of Massachusetts - Lowell Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Top 25% overall quality in New England

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region. University of Massachusetts Amherst is a large school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 14 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• 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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