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2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
20 Degrees Awarded
$29,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Chemical Engineering is the 66th most popular major in the country with 13,610 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,963 and had an average of $22,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across North Carolina, there were 228 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $69,200 and $21,563 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 20 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,103 and $114,434 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent chemical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the chemical engineering program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in North Carolina

#1

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k list. North Carolina State University is a large public school situated in Raleigh, North Carolina. It awarded 20 doctorate’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Chemical Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at North Carolina State University are $28,999, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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