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2023 Most Popular Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region

7 Colleges
$71,006 Avg Salary
$27,000 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Materials Engineering 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. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in the New England Region to see which programs were the most popular 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 .

#1

Boston University

Boston, MA

Our 2023 rankings named Boston University the most popular school in the New England Region for materials engineering students. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

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The excellent programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best materials engineering schools in the New England Region . Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Popular Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the midsize city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Storrs.

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#5

Tufts University

Medford, MA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

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#6

University of Maine

Orono, ME

University of Maine came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking. Located in the suburb of Orono, UMaine is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for materials engineering students. It came in at #6 on the list. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.

Full Materials Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

Best Materials Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best materials engineering schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 105
Connecticut 17
Maine 0

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 7 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.

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