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2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$36,441 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for materials science 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. 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 Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

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

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Materials Sciences

Our analysis found Texas A&M University - College Station to be the best value school for materials sciences students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. 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 graduate students pay an average of $24,106 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Texas A&M College Station also is in the top 5% of our Best Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools list. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Amherst.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UMass Amherst are $32,809 a year.

Full Materials Sciences at University of Massachusetts Amherst Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Rochester Institute of Technology helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value materials sciences schools in the United States. RIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Rochester.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at RIT are $52,408 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, RIT is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools list.

Full Materials Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology Report

Materials Sciences by Region

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New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 8 majors within the area of study, materials sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 3 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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