The Georgia Tech (which made number 2 in the list of twenty-five) logo featuring their mascot, Buzz
There's a lot of buzz (pun intended) regarding materials science schools as they relate to the amount a student invests into his or her higher education career versus what they get out of it after education. When highschool students are looking at where they want to go to begin their college career, one of the most influential statistics can be how big of a bargain the school is. No one wants to put a bunch of money into their education only to find out that their chosen field doesn't have the big pay-out they were expecting. For this reason, going to school for materials science may be one of the wisest investments a freshman in college can make.
An article from The American Ceramic Society sums up the information from the original BusinessWeek article as follows:
"The source data come from PayScale, a salary comparison and benchmarking service. Using this information, BusinessWeek calculated a 30-year net return on investment for more than 500 colleges and universities. According to the publication, these schools "boast a 30-year net return on investment that ranges from about $600,000 to more than $1.1 million, an improvement of 56 percent to 187 percent over the average for the entire sample. All of them sport decent graduation rates, too - in most cases, well above the 58 percent average."
With a potential overall return of more than a million dollars over the course of thirty years, it is evident that materials science is an industry that is rapidly growing. If you have a student looking to go into a science or engineering field, but they're not entirely certain what they want to do with their lives, you should probably mention the large amounts of money that people in the field are currently making. If you yourself are considering going back to school, or going for the first time, there is a lot to be said for the materials sciences, most notably the big payout.
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