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Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region

2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$52,064 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$71,006 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

Materials Engineering is the #158 most popular major in the country with 3,415 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for materials engineering 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.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named Massachusetts Institute of Technology the best value school in the New England Region for materials engineering students. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

MIT undergraduate students pay an average of $55,878 in tuition and fees each year.

MIT did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a great value for materials engineering students. Located in the city of Worcester, WPI is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at WPI are $55,531 a year.

WPI excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list.

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$41,192 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Connecticut is a great value for materials engineering students. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UCONN are $41,192 per year. After completing their degree, materials engineering graduates from UCONN carry an average student debtload of $27,000. When it comes time to repay the loan, graduates who are on a 10-year repayment plan pay an average monthly payment of $509.

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#4

Tufts University

Medford, MA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Tufts University is a great value for materials engineering students. Located in the large suburb of Medford, Tufts is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

Tufts undergraduate students pay an average of $63,000 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Tufts also is in the top 10% of our Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking.

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$36,964 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region list. UMass Amherst is a very large public school located in the 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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#6

Boston University

Boston, MA

With a ranking of #6, Boston University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for materials engineering students. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Boston U are $59,816 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Boston U also is in the top 15% of our Best Materials Engineering Schools in the New England Region ranking.

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Best Materials Engineering Colleges by State

Explore the best materials engineering schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 129
Connecticut 55
Maine 0

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Materials Engineering is one of 40 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering 46,178
Electrical Engineering 28,844
Civil Engineering 21,388
Computer Engineering 17,987
Chemical Engineering 12,917

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 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 Panoramedia.

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