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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Kentucky

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$12,610 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,761 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

With 2 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, materials engineering is the #142 most popular major in Kentucky.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Kentucky ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges.

Best Materials Engineering School

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY
$12,610 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Kentucky the best value school in Kentucky for materials engineering students. UK is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lexington.

UK undergraduate students pay an average of $12,610 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UK did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Kentucky list.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 37
Florida 92
Georgia 59
North Carolina 30
Tennessee 36
Louisiana 8
Alabama 33
South Carolina 15
Mississippi 3
Arkansas 1
West Virginia 1

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 values are for the top school 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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