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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$51,140 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$59,744 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania

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

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

#1

Villanova University

Villanova, PA
$59,020 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Villanova University the best value school in Pennsylvania for materials engineering students. Villanova is a large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Villanova.

Villanova undergraduate students pay an average of $59,020 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Villanova also took the #5 spot in our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.

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#2

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, PA
$57,470 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Lehigh University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Lehigh is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Bethlehem.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lehigh are $57,470 per year.

Lehigh excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list.

Full Materials Engineering at Lehigh University Report

$20,362 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the # 3 spot on the list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pitt are $20,362 per year.

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#4

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA
$61,710 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pennsylvania landed the # 4 spot on the list. UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UPenn are $61,710 per year.

UPenn did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Pennsylvania list.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Pennsylvania

#5

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA
$57,136 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Drexel University is a great value for materials engineering students. Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Drexel is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Drexel are $57,136 a year.

Full Materials Engineering at Drexel University Report

Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools 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 averages are for the top 5 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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