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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$33,096 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree School for You

Materials Engineering is the #73 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 144 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for materials engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for materials engineering majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Materials Engineering

#1

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA

Our 2023 rankings named Lehigh University the best value school in Pennsylvania for materials engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Lehigh is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Bethlehem.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Lehigh are $27,130 per year.

Lehigh also took the #3 spot in our Best Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.

Full Materials Engineering at Lehigh University Report

#2

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Pennsylvania is a great value for materials engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UPenn are $42,932 per year.

UPenn also took the #2 spot in our Best Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.

Full Materials Engineering at University of Pennsylvania Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is a great value for materials engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Pittsburgh.

Pitt graduate students pay an average of $25,248 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#4

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Drexel University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials engineering schools in Pennsylvania. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Drexel are $37,074 per year.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 97
Maryland 41
New Jersey 9
District of Columbia 0

Materials Engineering is one of 39 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Electrical Engineering 11,021
Mechanical Engineering 9,007
Civil Engineering 6,042
Computer Engineering 5,557
Biomedical Engineering 4,252

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Panoramedia.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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