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2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$40,370 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Materials Sciences 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 Schools in New York ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in New York to see which ones offered the best value 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 Schools in New York

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Materials Sciences Colleges.

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Sciences

#1

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY
$10,782 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University at Buffalo the best value school in New York for materials sciences students. Located in the suburb of Buffalo, University at Buffalo is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at University at Buffalo are $10,782 a year.

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$50,951 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Rochester Institute of Technology landed the # 2 spot on the list. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Rochester.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at RIT are $50,951 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, RIT is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Materials Sciences Schools in New York list.

Full Materials Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology Report

#3

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY
$59,378 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Schools in New York list. Located in the city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

University of Rochester undergraduate students pay an average of $59,378 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, University of Rochester also is in the top 15% of our Best Materials Sciences Schools in New York ranking.

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Best Value Materials Sciences Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Sciences Colleges 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 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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