2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Southwest region, there were 54 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Materials Science Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on 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. Albuquerque, New Mexico is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s materials science degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

Full UNM Materials Sciences Report

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’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 4 masters’s materials science degrees to qualified students.

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 full report on Materials Sciences at University of Arizona

3

Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona

Top 20% overall quality in Southwest

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

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Materials Sciences at Northern Arizona University

• Most Focused Master’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.