2025 Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
2Colleges in the Far Western US Region
72Doctor's Degrees
Materials Sciences is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #100 most popular doctor's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 72 doctor's degrees in materials sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to materials sciences students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of materials sciences students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How much debt materials sciences students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized materials sciences related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for materials sciences students working on their doctor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
