2025 Best Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in New York

Materials Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #40 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for materials engineering students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 33 doctor's degrees in materials engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on materials engineering students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other materials engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for materials engineering to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized materials engineering related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for materials engineering students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Materials Engineering in New York

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in materials engineering.

Top New York Schools for a Doctorate in Materials Engineering

1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

10 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in materials engineering needs to look into Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. RPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Troy.More information about a doctorate in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2

Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY

10 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Stony Brook University if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in materials engineering. Located in the large suburb of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in materials engineering from Stony Brook University

Best Materials Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Materials Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	50
Maryland	119	18
New Jersey	115	5

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Materials Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Materials Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Materials Engineering Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Materials Engineering	33

Majors Similar to Materials Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	135
Mechanical Engineering	111
Biomedical Engineering	91
Chemical Engineering	79
Civil Engineering	67
Industrial Engineering	27
Operations Research	27
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	15
Engineering Physics	12
Environmental Engineering	12

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.