2023 Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 New England region, there were 139 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,354 and $27,000 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in polymer and plastics engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in polymer and plastics engineering.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region

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

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the New England Region

1

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

$56,705 Average Early-Career Earnings

$26,401 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region list. UMass Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 117 ’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%.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Massachusetts - Lowell

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University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

$47,385 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,892 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Polymer Engineering Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #2 spot on the list. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s polymer engineering degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full UMass Amherst Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

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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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