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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$28,707 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate School for You

Materials Engineering is the #100 most popular major in the country with 1,810 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

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 Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

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

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Materials Engineering

#1

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

Our analysis found Villanova University to be the best value school for materials engineering students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Villanova are $21,199 a year.

Villanova also claimed a spot on our Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Texas A&M University - College Station helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials engineering schools in the United States. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of College Station.

Texas A&M College Station graduate students pay an average of $24,106 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Texas A&M College Station also did well on our Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Materials Engineering at Texas A&M University - College Station Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials engineering schools in the United States. Located in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Louisiana State University are $29,966 a year.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Stevens Institute of Technology. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools list. Stevens is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Hoboken.

Stevens graduate students pay an average of $39,556 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Stevens also is in the top 15% of our Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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Materials Engineering by Region

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Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 39 majors within the area of study, materials engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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.

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