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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$34,688 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,714 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

Materials Engineering is the #115 most popular major in North Carolina with 30 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value programs for materials engineering students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named North Carolina State University the best value school in North Carolina for materials engineering students. Located in the large city of Raleigh, NC State is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at NC State are $9,131 a year.

NC State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina list.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at North Carolina State University

#2

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Duke University is a great value for materials engineering students. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Duke are $60,244 a year.

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

Full Materials Engineering at Duke University Report

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
Tennessee 36
Kentucky 2
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 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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