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Materials Science & Engineering
Metals, polymers, semiconductors and nanomaterials, and designing new ones.
Who it suits
IRC
- Thinker: analysing, researching, figuring out why
- Builder: hands-on, tools, machines, outdoors
- Organiser: structure, data, precision
Students here tend to be a bit more curious than average.
Builds on
Chemistry ●●●Physics ●●●Mathematics ●●
Typically offers
High salary · Job security · Working with technology
Where it leads
Materials engineer · Metallurgist · Semiconductor process engineer · Polymer scientist
US median earnings, one year after a bachelor’s
$68,319
College Scorecard, US Department of Education
580 programmes tracked
🇩🇪 Germany 194🇺🇸 United States 164🇫🇷 France 74🇫🇮 Finland 66🇦🇺 Australia 35🇦🇹 Austria 29🇨🇭 Switzerland 18
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