2023 Best Value Materials Sciences Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Materials Sciences School for You

Materials Sciences is the #163 most popular major in North Carolina with 9 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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 Sciences Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

Best Materials Sciences School

#1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

2 Degrees

#2 in Quality in North Carolina

$9,028 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be the best value school for materials sciences students who want to pursue a degree in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.

UNC Chapel Hill undergraduate students pay an average of $9,028 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UNC Chapel Hill also took the #2 spot in our Best Materials Sciences Schools in North Carolina rankings.

Read full report on Materials Sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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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