by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 Pennsylvania, there were 85 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,366 and $27,591 respectively.
This year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their polymer and plastics engineering program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania polymer engineering students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Technology landed the #1 spot on the list. Penn College is a public institution located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 18 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lehigh University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Polymer Engineering Major in Pennsylvania. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s polymer engineering degrees to 19 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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