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Most Popular Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

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2023 Most Popular Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

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Finding the Best Materials Engineering Master's Degree School for You

Materials Engineering is the #100 most popular major in the country with 1,810 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Plains States Region to see which ones were the most popular master's degree programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Materials Engineering program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for materials engineering majors pursuing a master's degree.

Our analysis found Washington University in St Louis to be the most popular school for materials engineering students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Plains States Region . Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Women make up 23% of the materials engineering majors at the school.

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The in-demand master’s degree programs at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular materials engineering schools in the Plains States Region . SD Mines is a small public school located in the city of Rapid City.

Women make up 50% of the materials engineering majors at the school.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Of the 6 students majoring in materials engineering at UMN Twin Cities, 67% are male and 33% are female.

Full Materials Engineering at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Report

Out of the 5 schools in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri University of Science and Technology landed the # 4 spot on the list. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Rolla.

About 50% of the students majoring in materials engineering at the school are women while 50% are male.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of Minnesota - Duluth is a great place for materials engineering students working on their master’s degree. UMN Duluth is a moderately-sized public school located in the small city of Duluth.

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Best Materials Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best materials engineering colleges for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 23
Minnesota 22
North Dakota 0
South Dakota 7

Materials Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Panoramedia.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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