Materials Engineering at Purdue University - Main Campus

If you plan to study materials engineering, take a look at what Purdue University - Main Campus has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Purdue is located in West Lafayette, Indiana and approximately 46,655 students attend the school each year. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students received their master's degree in materials engineering.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Materials Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Purdue Materials Engineering Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Materials Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Materials Engineering

Purdue Materials Engineering Rankings

There were 40 students who received their doctoral degrees in materials engineering, making the school the #1 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Materials Engineering Student Demographics at Purdue

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the materials engineering majors at Purdue University - Main Campus.

Purdue Materials Engineering Master’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students earned a master's degree in materials engineering from Purdue. About 23% of these graduates were women and the other 77% were men.

In the materials engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 46% of degree recipients. That is 29% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Purdue University - Main Campus with a master's in materials engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Nuclear Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Agricultural Engineering
• Other Engineering

Careers That Materials Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in materials engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for IN, the home state for Purdue University - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Cost Estimators	4,360	$65,790
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,120	$123,180
Materials Engineers	840	$80,560

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Abhijitsathe under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.