2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Materials Science is the 538th most popular major in the country with 600 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 54 general materials science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 general materials science graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general materials science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in general materials science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Science in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s general materials science degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Materials Science at UNM

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on General Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s general materials science degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Materials Science at University of Arizona

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Science

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Per Henning.