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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$42,926 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$64,436 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

Materials Engineering is the #87 most popular major in Illinois with 111 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

The Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Illinois 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.

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 Schools in Illinois

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

Best Illinois Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

$17,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign the best value school in Illinois for materials engineering students. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

UIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $17,634 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UIUC is ranked #3 for overall quality for materials engineering in Illinois.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL
$60,768 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Northwestern University is a great value for materials engineering students. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Northwestern are $60,768 a year.

Northwestern also made our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Illinois list, coming in at #1.

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$50,375 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Illinois Institute of Technology is a great value for materials engineering students. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Illinois Tech are $50,375 a year.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology

Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 79
Ohio 87
Indiana 54
Wisconsin 25

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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