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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$34,688 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,714 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

In 2020-2021, 61 degrees and certificates were awarded to materials engineering students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #175 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in North Carolina 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina

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

Best North Carolina Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

Our 2023 rankings named North Carolina State University the best value school in North Carolina for materials engineering students. NC State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Raleigh.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at NC State are $9,131 per year. While working on their degree, materials engineering majors at NC State accumulate an average of around $21,970 in student debt.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, NC State is ranked #5 for overall quality for materials engineering in North Carolina.

Full Materials Engineering at North Carolina State University Report

#2

Duke University

Durham, NC
$60,244 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina list. Duke is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Durham.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Duke are $60,244 a year.

Duke also made our Best Materials Engineering Schools in North Carolina list, coming in at #1.

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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
Florida 153
Tennessee 57
Kentucky 29
South Carolina 59
Louisiana 8
Arkansas 1
Alabama 65
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 2 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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