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Overview
Metallurgical engineering is a program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and metallurgical principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of metal components of structural, load-bearing, power, transmission, and moving systems; and the analysis of engineering problems such as stress, creep, failure, alloy behavior, environmental fluctuations, stability, electromagnetic and thermodynamic characteristics, optimal manufacturing processes, and related design considerations.
Career with the highest median salary ($164K) where most workers have a Bachelor's Degree: Sales Managers
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Careers for program graduates
Metallurgical engineering majors work in these careers, which are sized by percentage of majors in the career (at least 1%) and colored by the predominant level of education.
Have completions for metallurgical engineering changed over time? Increasing completions may mean you'll likely have an easier time finding a school that offers this degree, with the opposite being true as well.
Distribution: metallurgical engineering majors' salaries by education level
What is the salary distribution for graduates with a bachelor's inmetallurgical engineering by the level of their highest degree (Graduate degrees may not be in the same field as the bachelor’s)
We only include salary data when the survey error is less than 20%, so you may see only partial information for some categories.
Education level of workers with a bachelor's in metallurgical engineering
Is a bachelor's degree going to be sufficient to make you competative in the job market? We can look at the education level of workers with a bachelors in this degree to see if there is a likely need for a graduate degree. You'll also want to check out the careers section on this page to where they are employed.
This chart shows the level of education of workers with a bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering. The worker's graduate degree may have been completed in a different field.
Context: Graduate degrees in any field by undergraduate ACS degree
About 54% of metallurgical engineering majors chose to also earn a graduate degree (possibly of a different major). The percentage of metallurgical engineering majors who also earned a graduate degree is higher than about 89% of other fields.
Context: Percentage salary boost obtained with a graduate degree
How important is a graduate degree for earning a higher salary? We can see the difference in salary of workers with a bachelors in this degree to workers with a bachelor’s AND a graduate degree.
Top careers for those with a degree in metallurgical engineering
Following are the most frequent jobs held by people who earned a bachelor's degree in Metallurgical Engineering, though may not be limited to just those with a bachelor’s.
Where do metallurgical engineering majors work, and how well do those jobs pay? A ** in the job title indicates that the Department of Education recommends this job for this program.
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The top ten careers for workers with a bachelor's in metallurgical engineering
Take a minute to interact with this sankey diagram. Follow the top ten jobs held by metallurgical engineering graduates through to their most hired majors. Learn where it may easiest to find work. Expand the careers to explore other majors that might lead to the job that excites you the most. *For many majors, the top ten jobs don't even include half of graduates!*
Explore schools that offer metallurgical engineering degrees and certificates
You can use this table to find schools that offer this program based on location and program level offered. Each entry goes to a school page similar to this one with all our information about that school.
Understanding the columns
The school list includes a few facts about each school that give you an
idea of the educational quality each school might offer:
Student-Faculty Ratio: A small number of students per full-time instructor
suggests individual attention for each student and an up-to-date curriculum.
Satisfaction Rate: A high percentage of returning first-year students
should correlate with satisfaction (schools call this their retention rate).
Repayment Rate: A high repayment rate means most alumni earn enough
to make progress repaying loans within 7 years of leaving.
We also show the total enrollment for the school as measured by
full-time-equivalent (FTE) students enrolled annually.
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metallurgical engineering is part of a larger collection of programs: Engineering. Is there a different program that's close to metallurgical engineering that might be a better match for your interests? You can use this table to see a little about the programs that fall under this umbrella. If you click on any of the table headers, that will sort the table by that column, or click on a row and see Ididio's profile for that program.
For metallurgical engineering graduates, men have a 17% higher median salary than women, This is near the middle of salary differentials within each program's graduates.
Here is an overview of race/origin for all metallurgical engineering graduates from this last academic year. We found a higher percentage of international graduates in this program than in 81% of other programs.