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Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

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Materials Engineering at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

What traits are you looking for in a materials engineering school? To help you decide if California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's materials engineering program.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is located in San Luis Obispo, California and approximately 22,440 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 41 students received a bachelor's degree in materials engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Materials Engineering section at the bottom of this page.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Materials Engineering Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Materials Engineering Rankings

The materials engineering major at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Materials Engineering. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Earnings of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Materials Engineering Graduates

The median salary of materials engineering students who receive their bachelor's degree at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is $62,746. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $66,522 for all materials engineering students.

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Materials Engineering Student Demographics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the materials engineering majors at California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Program

20% Women
51% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 41 students earned a bachelor's degree in materials engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. About 20% of these graduates were women and the other 80% were men.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its materials engineering bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo with a bachelor's in materials engineering.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 12
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 15
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 9

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo also has a doctoral program available in materials engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Careers That Materials Engineering Grads May Go Into

A degree in materials engineering can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.

Occupation Jobs in CA Average Salary in CA
Architectural and Engineering Managers 31,580 $175,010
Cost Estimators 28,660 $78,190
Materials Engineers 2,590 $107,570
Engineering Professors 2,400 $129,790

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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