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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Michigan

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$24,106 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$79,677 Avg Salary

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

With 79 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, materials engineering is the #74 most popular major in Michigan.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 Master's Degree Schools in Michigan to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Michigan to see which master's degree 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. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan

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

Best Michigan Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Materials Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named University of Michigan - Ann Arbor the best value school in Michigan for materials engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public school with a very large student population.

U-M graduate students pay an average of $25,230 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

U-M also made our Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan list, coming in at #1.

Full Materials Engineering at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Report

The excellent master’s degree programs at Michigan Technological University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials engineering schools in Michigan. Michigan Tech is a medium-sized public school located in the remote town of Houghton.

Michigan Tech graduate students pay an average of $22,981 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Michigan Tech also took the #3 spot in our Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Michigan rankings.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Michigan Technological University

Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 111
Ohio 87
Indiana 54
Wisconsin 25

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 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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