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2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$52,408 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate School for You

With 90 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, materials sciences is the #134 most popular major in New York.

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.

The Best Value Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in New York ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate School

Our 2023 rankings named Rochester Institute of Technology the best value school in New York for materials sciences students working on their graduate certificate. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Rochester.

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

RIT also took the #4 spot in our Best Materials Sciences Graduate Certificate Schools in New York rankings.

Read full report on Materials Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology

Best Value Materials Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 58
New Jersey 21
District of Columbia 5
Delaware 17

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 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 Per Henning.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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