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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$15,353 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$73,616 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 65 degrees and certificates were awarded to materials engineering students who went to a Alabama college or university. This makes it the #115 most popular major in the state.

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, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Alabama to see which programs offered the best value experiences for materials engineering students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Engineering Schools in Alabama

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

Best Alabama Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

$8,568 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Alabama at Birmingham the best value school in Alabama for materials engineering students. Located in the medium-sized city of Birmingham, UAB is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UAB undergraduate students pay an average of $8,568 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Auburn University

Auburn, AL
$11,826 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama list. Located in the city of Auburn, Auburn is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Auburn are $11,826 a year.

Auburn did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama list.

Full Materials Engineering at Auburn University Report

#3

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, AL
$11,620 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the # 3 spot on the list. UA is a very large public school located in the small city of Tuscaloosa.

UA undergraduate students pay an average of $11,620 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UA also took the #5 spot in our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Alabama rankings.

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#4

Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, AL
$22,614 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, Tuskegee University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Tuskegee is a small private not-for-profit school located in the distant town of Tuskegee.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Tuskegee are $22,614 a year.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 114
Virginia 103
North Carolina 61
Florida 153
Tennessee 57
Kentucky 29
South Carolina 59
Louisiana 8
Arkansas 1
Mississippi 3
West Virginia 1

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 4 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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