This page contains key outcome data for the Materials Engineering and Materials Science Major, estimated using US Census data. See the methodology here. For more on the College Majors Data Dashboard click here.
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Overall Major Information
- Field: STEM
- Average Income: $69,000 (Rank: 24 of 173)
- 25% Make Less Than: $46,000
- Unemployment Rate: 1.80% (Rank: 7 of 171)
- Percent Female: 33.4%
- Percent Who Get a Masters Degree: 33.6%
- Percent Who Get a Professional Degree: 4.3%
- Percent Who Get a PhD: 12.0%
- Major Popularity Ranking: 140 of 173
- Major Difficulty (1-5): 3.29 (Rank: 15 of 118)
Careers Information
This list provides the 25 most common careers (occupations) among people in this major, and how much they earn within each occupation.
- Industrial Engineers, including Health and Safety: 11.50% (Average Income: $79,000)
- Engineers, : 9.83% (Average Income: $80,000)
- Materials Engineers: 8.80% (Average Income: $81,000)
- Chemical Engineers: 4.58% (Average Income: $69,000)
- Mechanical Engineers: 3.98% (Average Income: $81,000)
- Aerospace Engineers: 2.55% (Average Income: $95,000)
- Civil Engineers: 2.22% (Average Income: $76,000)
- Customer Service Representatives: 2.04% (Average Income: $31,000)
- Unemployed, with No Work Experience in the Last 5 Years or Earlier or Never Worked: 1.93%
- Managers, (including Postmasters): 1.89% (Average Income: $73,000)
- Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software: 1.78% (Average Income: $89,000)
- Management Analysts: 1.61% (Average Income: $70,000)
- First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers: 1.59% (Average Income: $69,000)
- Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, : 1.46% (Average Income: $28,000)
- First-Line Supervisors of Sales Workers: 1.46% (Average Income: $85,000)
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand: 1.39% (Average Income: $27,000)
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing: 1.36% (Average Income: $89,000)
- Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 1.23% (Average Income: $46,000)
- Architectural and Engineering Managers: 1.09% (Average Income: $74,000)
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants: 1.08% (Average Income: $34,000)
- Logisticians: 0.98% (Average Income: $120,000)
- Postsecondary Teachers: 0.97% (Average Income: $13,000)
- Other production workers including semiconductor processors and cooling and freezing equipment operators: 0.95% (Average Income: $57,000)
- Clergy: 0.94% (Average Income: $67,000)
- Sales Representatives, Services, All Other: 0.92% (Average Income: $90,000)
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