Materials Engineering at Virginia Tech

If you are interested in studying materials engineering, you may want to check out the program at Virginia Tech. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia and has a total student population of 37,024. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 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.

Virginia Tech Materials Engineering Degrees Available

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

Virginia Tech Materials Engineering Rankings

There were 10 students who received their doctoral degrees in materials engineering, making the school the #23 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Materials Engineering Student Demographics at Virginia Tech

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the materials engineering majors at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech Materials Engineering Master’s Program

Of the 9 students who graduated with a master’s in materials engineering from Virginia Tech in 2021, 78% were men and 22% were women.

Of the students who received a materials engineering master's degree from Virginia Tech, 67% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level. In the materials engineering master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 33% of degree recipients. That is 16% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a master's in materials engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Marine Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Systems Engineering
• Polymer & Plastics Engineering
• Mining 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 VA, the home state for Virginia Tech.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Cost Estimators	9,220	$74,160
Architectural and Engineering Managers	4,030	$164,300
Materials Engineers	470	$97,470

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 Eric T Gunther under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.