2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 3,485 people earned their degree in general materials engineering, making the major the 189th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 174 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 61 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general materials engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general materials engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general materials engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

#1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$4,535 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees to 28 students in 2019-2020.

MIT also made our “Best General Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $4,535 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Materials Processing and Manufacturing students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend MIT.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on General Materials Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$12,381 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 33 degrees to qualified bachelors’s materials processing and manufacturing students in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best General Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for UCONN is $12,381 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Materials Processing and Manufacturing students whose families make $0-$30k.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Connecticut General Materials Engineering Report

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $0-$30k)

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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