2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Materials Sciences School for You
Materials Sciences is the #179 most popular major in the country with 448 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.
The Best Value Materials Sciences Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 22 schools in the United States to see which programs offered the best value experiences for materials science 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.
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2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Materials Sciences Colleges.
Top 10 Best Materials Sciences Schools
Our analysis found Missouri State University - Springfield to be the best value school for materials sciences students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. Missouri State is a very large public school located in the city of Springfield.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Missouri State are $16,498 a year.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great value for materials sciences students. UD is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Newark.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UD are $36,880 per year.
In addition to its great value ranking, UD is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Materials Sciences Schools list.
Out of the 22 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of College Station, Texas A&M College Station is a public school with a very large student population.
Texas A&M College Station undergraduate students pay an average of $38,855 in tuition and fees each year.
Texas A&M College Station excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Materials Sciences Schools list.
The excellent programs at University of California - Santa Barbara helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best materials sciences schools in the United States. UCSB is a fairly large public school located in the midsize suburb of Santa Barbara.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UCSB are $44,171 a year.
In addition to its great value ranking, UCSB is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Materials Sciences Schools list.
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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Rowan University is a great value for materials sciences students. Located in the large suburb of Glassboro, Rowan is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Rowan undergraduate students pay an average of $23,408 in tuition and fees each year.
University of California - Berkeley came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Materials Sciences Schools ranking. UC Berkeley is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.
UC Berkeley undergraduate students pay an average of $43,980 in tuition and fees each year.
UC Berkeley also claimed a spot on our Best Materials Sciences Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools in this category.
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William Paterson University of New Jersey ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Materials Sciences Schools list. Located in the suburb of Wayne, William Paterson University is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at William Paterson University are $22,946 per year.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Materials Sciences Schools ranking. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UMass Amherst are $36,964 a year.
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Colorado State University - Fort Collins came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Materials Sciences Schools ranking. Colorado State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Colorado State are $31,470 per year.
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University of Arizona landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value materials sciences programs. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public college with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at University of Arizona are $35,153 a year.
Materials Sciences by Region
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Materials Sciences Related Majors for Materials Science
One of 8 majors within the area of study, materials sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Chemistry | 5,005 |
| Physics | 3,727 |
| Geological & Earth Sciences | 2,491 |
| Astronomy & Astrophysics | 371 |
| Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology | 342 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 22 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 Per Henning.
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