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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$16,980 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,906 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

With 103 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, materials engineering is the #136 most popular major in Virginia.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Virginia ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Virginia 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 Virginia

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

Best Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality in Materials Engineering

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA
$14,174 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Virginia Tech the best value school in Virginia for materials engineering students. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Virginia Tech are $14,174 a year. The average amount in student loans that materials engineering majors at Virginia Tech take out is $27,070.

Virginia Tech also made our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Virginia list, coming in at #3.

Full Materials Engineering at Virginia Tech Report

$19,785 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Virginia - Main Campus is a great value for materials engineering students. Located in the small suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public school with a very large student population.

University of Virginia undergraduate students pay an average of $19,785 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, University of Virginia is ranked #1 for overall quality for materials engineering in Virginia.

Full Materials Engineering at University of Virginia - Main Campus Report

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
North Carolina 61
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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