Materials Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

If you are interested in studying materials engineering, you may want to check out the program at Johns Hopkins University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Johns Hopkins is located in Baltimore, Maryland and has a total student population of 28,890. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students received a bachelor's degree in materials engineering from Johns Hopkins.

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.

Johns Hopkins Materials Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering
• Master’s Degree in Materials Engineering
• Doctorate Degree in Materials Engineering

Johns Hopkins Materials Engineering Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the materials engineering progam at Johns Hopkins compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The materials engineering major at Johns Hopkins 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
	25
Most Focused Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools	26
Most Focused Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools	54
	63

In 2021, 22 students received their master’s degree in materials engineering from Johns Hopkins. This makes it the #15 most popular school for materials engineering master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 7 students who received their doctoral degrees in materials engineering, making the school the #33 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Materials Engineering Student Demographics at Johns Hopkins

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the materials engineering majors at Johns Hopkins University.

Johns Hopkins Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Program

The materials engineering program at Johns Hopkins awarded 14 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 57% of these degrees went to men with the other 43% going to women. The typical materials engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% women. So female students are more repesented at Johns Hopkins since its program graduates 10% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 27% 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 Johns Hopkins University with a bachelor's in materials engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	5
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Johns Hopkins Materials Engineering Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students graduated with a master's degree in materials engineering from Johns Hopkins. About 68% were men and 32% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a master's in materials engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	3
International Students	14
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Johns Hopkins also has a doctoral program available in materials engineering. In 2021, 7 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Engineering Mechanics
• General Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Civil Engineering

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 MD, the home state for Johns Hopkins University.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Architectural and Engineering Managers	5,010	$145,470
Cost Estimators	4,390	$71,650
Materials Engineers	920	$116,380
Engineering Professors	890	$117,160

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Lester Spence under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.