2024 Best Materials Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
3Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
15Master's Degrees
Materials Sciences isn't the most popular master's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #190 in popularity out of 343 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Materials Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 15 master's degrees in materials sciences during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Materials Sciences School for Your Master's Degree
The materials science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to materials sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of materials sciences students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for materials sciences to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized materials sciences related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for materials sciences students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Sciences Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Materials Sciences in the Great Lakes Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in materials sciences.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools for a Master's in Materials Science
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).