2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 658 people earned their degree in materials sciences, making the major the 265th most popular in the United States. 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 7 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,301 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in materials sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in materials sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in the Rocky Mountains Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Denver landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Denver is a private not-for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Denver Materials Sciences Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Colorado State University - Fort Collins. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Colorado State is a large public school situated in Fort Collins, Colorado. It awarded 1 masters’s 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. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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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