Materials Engineering and Materials Science
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Early Career Income
$107,197
Lifetime Income
$5.41M
Unemployment rate
2.7%
Female share
27.9%
Occupation concentration
47.1%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
21.3%
% who double-major
18.8%
BA Graduates from 2024
1,742
-7.1% vs 2023
How Materials Engineering and Materials Science compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
86th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 86% of majors
49th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 49% of majors
55th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 55% of majors
Top occupations
- Miscellaneous engineers, including nuclear engineers
- Materials Engineers
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Materials Engineering and Materials Science.
- Ceramic Sciences and Engineering
- Materials Engineering
- Textile Sciences and Engineering
- Polymer/Plastics Engineering
- Paper Science and Engineering
- Materials Science
- Materials Chemistry
- Materials Sciences, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology