2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,485 people earned their degree in materials engineering, making the major the 150th most popular in the United States. 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 Connecticut, there were 45 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,200 and $26,334 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,793 and $40,407 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great 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 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 Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#1 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Connecticut For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. UCONN is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Connecticut” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Connecticut are $41,576, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UCONN Materials Engineering Report

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering (With Aid)

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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