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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Washington

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$12,247 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$66,959 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

With 59 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, materials engineering is the #60 most popular major in Washington.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

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 Schools in Washington ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Washington to see which 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.

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 Schools in Washington

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges.

Best Washington Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

$12,417 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Washington State University to be the best value school for materials engineering students who want to pursue a degree in Washington. Wazzu is a very large public school located in the distant town of Pullman.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Wazzu are $12,417 a year.

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$12,076 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Washington list. Located in the city of Seattle, UW Seattle is a public college with a very large student population.

UW Seattle undergraduate students pay an average of $12,076 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UW Seattle also took the #4 spot in our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Washington rankings.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 308
Oregon 14
Nevada 2

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 2 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.

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