by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
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 Southwest region, there were 54 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in materials sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree materials science students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Arizona is located in Tucson, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s materials science degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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