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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$50,660 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$79,677 Avg Salary

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

Materials Engineering is the #96 most popular major in Massachusetts with 105 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Materials Engineering Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Massachusetts 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. 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 Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts

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 Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Materials Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best value school in Massachusetts for materials engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at MIT are $58,967 per year.

MIT also made our Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, coming in at #1.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a great value for materials engineering students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at WPI are $29,040 a year.

WPI excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list.

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#3

Tufts University

Medford, MA

The excellent master’s degree programs at Tufts University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials engineering schools in Massachusetts. Located in the suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Tufts are $55,216 per year.

Tufts also made our Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, coming in at #3.

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#4

Boston University

Boston, MA

The excellent master’s degree programs at Boston University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials engineering schools in Massachusetts. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Boston U are $59,418 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Boston U also did well on our Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Connecticut 17
Maine 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 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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