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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$58,556 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$80,203 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering 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.

The Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Massachusetts 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.

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 Schools in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges.

Best Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

$55,878 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best value school in Massachusetts for materials engineering students. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at MIT are $55,878 per year.

MIT did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts list.

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$55,531 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best materials engineering schools in Massachusetts. Located in the midsize city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at WPI are $55,531 a year.

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

Full Materials Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Report

#3

Tufts University

Medford, MA
$63,000 Average Tuition & Fees

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

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Tufts are $63,000 per year.

Tufts not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts list.

Full Materials Engineering at Tufts University Report

#4

Boston University

Boston, MA
$59,816 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Boston University is a great value for materials engineering students. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Boston U are $59,816 a year.

Boston U excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Massachusetts list.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Boston University

Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges 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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