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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in Georgia (With Aid)

1 Ranked Colleges
99 Degrees Awarded
$14,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor's in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality materials engineering programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia bachelor’s degree materials engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in Georgia (With Aid)

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Georgia Institute of Technology - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this large public school awarded 99 degrees to qualified bachelors’s materials engineering students 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 $14,739 for georgia bachelor’s degree materials engineering students with aid per year to attend Georgia Tech.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. 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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