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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$49,142 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Materials Engineering is the #96 most popular major in Massachusetts with 105 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Materials Engineering Doctor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Massachusetts to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for materials engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

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

Check out the materials engineering doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

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

Our analysis found Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be the best value school for materials engineering students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Massachusetts. Located in the midsize city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

MIT graduate students pay an average of $58,967 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

MIT also made our Best Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, coming in at #1.

Full Materials Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at WPI are $29,040 a year.

WPI not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list.

Full Materials Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Report

#3

Boston University

Boston, MA

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Boston University is a great value for materials engineering students working on their doctor’s degree. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Boston U are $59,418 per year.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Boston University

Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Connecticut 17
Maine 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 3 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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