2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Materials Engineering is the 189th most popular major in the country with 3,485 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across North Carolina, there were 91 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 27 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general materials engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general materials engineering programs and 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 general materials engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in North Carolina

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

$59,140 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k list. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best General Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Duke are $59,140, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$28,999 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend North Carolina State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k. This large school is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it awarded 26 masters’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees in 2019-2020.

NC State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Materials Engineering Master’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.

Read full report on General Materials Engineering at North Carolina State University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering (Income $30-$48k)

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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