2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Materials Sciences is the 265th most popular major in the country with 658 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, materials sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $64,925 and had an average of $26,966 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 37 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in materials sciences. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in materials sciences.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Top 20% overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s materials science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Materials Sciences Report

2

Purdue University Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Indiana

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Purdue University Fort Wayne. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. Fort Wayne, Indiana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s materials science degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Materials Sciences at Purdue University Fort Wayne

3

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northwestern University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Great Lakes Region. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s materials science degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Materials Sciences at Northwestern University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences

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.