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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$21,199 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate School

#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 Pennsylvania. Villanova is a large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Villanova.

Villanova graduate students pay an average of $21,199 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Villanova did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Materials Engineering Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges 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 values are for the top school 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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