Materials Engineering at University of California - Riverside

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

UCR is located in Riverside, California and approximately 26,434 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 22 students received a bachelor's degree in materials engineering from UCR.

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.

UCR Materials Engineering Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Engineering

UCR Materials Engineering Rankings

The materials engineering major at UCR 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.

Materials Engineering Student Demographics at UCR

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

UCR Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of materials engineering bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% went to women. The typical materials engineering bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% women. So female students are more repesented at UCR since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 73% 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 University of California - Riverside with a bachelor's in materials engineering.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	8
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UCR also has a doctoral program available in materials engineering. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Environmental Engineering
• General Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Biomedical 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 CA, the home state for University of California - Riverside.

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.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.