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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$16,980 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,906 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 37 degrees and certificates were awarded to materials engineering students who went to a Virginia college or university. This makes it the #103 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Virginia 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 Virginia

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

Best Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA
$14,174 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Virginia Tech the best value school in Virginia for materials engineering students. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Virginia Tech are $14,174 a year.

Virginia Tech did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Virginia list.

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$19,785 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Virginia - Main Campus is a great value for materials engineering students. Located in the small suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public college with a very large student population.

University of Virginia undergraduate students pay an average of $19,785 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

University of Virginia also made our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Virginia list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at University of Virginia - Main Campus

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
Florida 92
Georgia 59
North Carolina 30
Tennessee 36
Kentucky 2
Louisiana 8
Alabama 33
South Carolina 15
Mississippi 3
Arkansas 1
West Virginia 1

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 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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