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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Georgia

1 Ranked Colleges
99 Degrees Awarded
$11,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Materials Engineering is the 150th most popular major in the country with 3,485 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, materials engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $63,129 and had an average of $23,918 in loans still to pay off.

Across Georgia, there were 165 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,500 and $25,683 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 99 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,656 and $26,705 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent materials 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 materials engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia bachelor’s degree materials engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Georgia

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus is a large public school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 99 bachelors’s materials engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Georgia Tech, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Materials Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. It costs about $11,454 for georgia bachelor’s degree materials engineering students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Georgia Tech.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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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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