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Most Popular Schools for Materials Engineering Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and materials science principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of materials and related processes used in manufacturing in a wide variety of settings; the synthesis of new industrial materials, including marrying and bonding composites; analysis of materials requirements and specifications; and related problems of system design dependent on materials factors.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of Florida 116 1% $21,211
2 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 104 1% $30,102
3 Ohio State University-Main Campus 86 1% $27,367
4 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 85 1% $27,638
5 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 83 1% $28,776
6 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 82 1% $26,834
7 University of Southern California 80 1% $74,825
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison 69 1% $26,025
9 Stanford University 68 2% $71,587
10 Iowa State University 68 1% $21,186
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 67 1% $30,298
12 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 65 1% $23,977
13 University of California-Irvine 63 1% $34,261
14 Clemson University 63 1% $31,270
15 University of Pennsylvania 62 1% $74,408
16 Cornell University 62 1% $73,904
17 University of California-Los Angeles 61 1% $34,620
18 Purdue University-Main Campus 57 1% $22,822
19 Drexel University 56 1% $70,223
20 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 49 0% $27,898
21 Davis Technical College 49 3% N/A
22 University of California-San Diego 48 1% $32,838
23 Arizona State University-Tempe 47 0% $28,048
24 Johns Hopkins University 45 1% $71,901
25 University of Maryland-College Park 44 0% $27,146
26 University of Connecticut 43 1% $32,404
27 Washington State University 41 1% $27,484
28 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 40 2% $71,998
29 Michigan Technological University 38 2% $29,969
30 Metropolitan State University of Denver 37 1% $9,066
31 Boise State University 36 1% $23,076
32 University of North Texas 35 0% $24,712
33 California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo 35 1% $28,302
34 University of California-Davis 33 0% $35,177
35 Northwestern University 32 0% $74,649
36 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 31 1% $70,240
37 Michigan State University 30 0% $28,862
38 Lehigh University 30 2% $68,595
39 University of Dayton 29 1% $59,230
40 Great Bay Community College 29 8% $9,080
41 Case Western Reserve University 29 1% $67,332
42 The University of Texas at Arlington 28 0% $26,660
43 University of Alabama at Birmingham 27 1% $26,336
44 Ogden-Weber Technical College 26 3% N/A
45 University of California-Riverside 26 0% $35,242
46 Auburn University 24 0% $31,590
47 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 24 0% $33,503
48 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 23 1% $67,504
49 University of Utah 22 0% $24,472
50 Boston University 22 0% $72,618
51 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 21 0% $31,510
52 Stony Brook University 21 0% $26,091
53 Wright State University-Main Campus 20 1% $25,116
54 Winona State University 20 1% $21,975
55 San Jose State University 18 0% $29,193
56 University of Colorado Boulder 18 0% $31,044
57 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 16 4% $22,410
58 Illinois Institute of Technology 15 1% $65,386
59 University of Kentucky 15 0% $30,101
60 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 14 0% $24,486
61 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 14 0% $27,476
62 University of Virginia-Main Campus 13 0% $33,493
63 University of South Florida-Main Campus 13 0% $23,320
64 Texas A & M University-College Station 12 0% $29,506
65 Colorado School of Mines 11 1% $35,498
66 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 11 0% $36,652
67 Alfred University 11 2% $45,104
68 The University of Texas at El Paso 10 0% $23,843
69 The University of Texas at Dallas 10 0% $29,286
70 Portland State University 9 0% $26,085
71 Arizona State University-Skysong 8 0% $27,521
72 University of Central Florida 8 0% $22,548
73 California Institute of Technology 8 2% $72,084
74 New Jersey Institute of Technology 7 0% $37,738
75 California State University-Northridge 6 0% $22,969
76 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology 6 1% $25,020
77 Washington University in St Louis 6 0% $74,361
78 El Paso Community College 6 0% $4,089
79 University of Idaho 6 0% $21,350
80 University of Houston 5 0% $23,225
81 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 5 0% $30,360
82 University of California-Merced 5 0% $35,663
83 University of Illinois at Chicago 4 0% $30,866
84 Stevens Institute of Technology 4 0% $69,292
85 West Virginia University 3 0% $23,294
86 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 3 0% $24,105
87 Mountainland Technical College 3 0% $1,692
88 Binghamton University 2 0% $26,866
89 Salt Lake Community College 2 0% $4,743
90 Florida International University 2 0% $23,506
91 Southern Maine Community College 1 0% $17,082
92 The University of Texas at San Antonio 1 0% $23,715
93 Missouri University of Science and Technology 1 0% $22,440

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Materials Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.