2025 Best Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Ohio

If you plan on getting your master's degree in materials engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #108 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Ohio ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 62 master's degrees in materials engineering during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Materials Engineering School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of materials engineering for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

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 master's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their master's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 - The number of materials engineering students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• 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 master'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 schools for materials engineering students working on their master'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 Master's Degree Schools in Ohio list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Materials Engineering in Ohio

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

Top Ohio Schools for a Master's in Materials Engineering

1

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

27 Annual Graduates

Ohio State University - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in materials engineering. Ohio State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Columbus.More information about a master’s in materials engineering from Ohio State University - Main Campus

2

University of Dayton
Dayton, OH

13 Annual Graduates

University of Dayton is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a master's degree in materials engineering. UDayton is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Dayton.More information about a master’s in materials engineering from University of Dayton

3

University of Cincinnati - Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH

11 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Cincinnati - Main Campus if you wish to pursue a master's degree in materials engineering. UC is a fairly large public university located in the city of Cincinnati.More information about a master’s in materials engineering from University of Cincinnati - Main Campus

Best Materials Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Materials Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	221	54
Michigan	211	53
Indiana	191	13
Wisconsin	173	14

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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	62

Majors Similar to Materials Engineering

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering	377
Mechanical Engineering	316
Computer Engineering	179
Civil Engineering	138
Aerospace & Aeronautical Engineering	114
Biomedical Engineering	107
Chemical Engineering	71
Systems Engineering	65
Operations Research	60
Engineering Science	45

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.