2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region 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 Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 647th most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 78 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 general polymer amd plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general polymer amd plastics engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general polymer amd plastics engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the general polymer amd plastics engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

University of Akron Main Campus

Akron, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$15,217 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school situated in Akron, Ohio. It awarded 14 doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Akron Main Campus not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Akron Main Campus are $15,217.

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#2

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio

#1 in overall quality

$47,958 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Case Western did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Polymer & Plastics Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western Reserve University are $47,958, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Polymer & Plastics 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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