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2023 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$9,634 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$66,475 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Materials Engineering School for You

With 42 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, materials engineering is the #144 most popular major in Iowa.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

The Best Value Materials Engineering Schools in Iowa ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Best Materials Engineering School

$9,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Iowa State University the best value school in Iowa for materials engineering students. Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Iowa State are $9,634 per year. The average amount in student loans that materials engineering majors at Iowa State take out is $22,875.

Iowa State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Materials Engineering Schools in Iowa list.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Iowa State University

Best Value Materials Engineering Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 23
Minnesota 81
North Dakota 0
South Dakota 7

One of 40 majors within the area of study, materials engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 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 Panoramedia.

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