Materials Science

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Early Career Income

$114,383

Lifetime Income

$6.23M

Unemployment rate

2.3%

Female share

27.7%

Occupation concentration

54.3%

in top 10 occupations

Remote work share

22.7%

% who double-major

9.5%

BA Graduates

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How Materials Science compares

Ranked against every other major nationally.

97th

percentile

Lifetime income

Higher than 97% of majors

64th

percentile

Unemployment

Lower unemployment than 64% of majors

71st

percentile

Occupation concentration

More concentrated than 71% of majors

Top occupations

Miscellaneous engineers, including nuclear engineers
Materials Engineers
Physical Scientists, All Other

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.

Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology