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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k

7 Ranked Colleges
83 Degrees Awarded
$30,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master's For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 287th most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $65,100 and had an average of $25,167 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 83 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in polymer and plastics engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality polymer and plastics engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree polymer engineering students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering (Income $48-$75k)

#1

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lehigh University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s polymer engineering degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Lehigh, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Lehigh University are $27,130, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school awarded 26 degrees to qualified masters’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

UMass Lowell also made our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #3. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Lowell are $26,990.

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#3

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k. University of Massachusetts Amherst is located in Amherst, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 11 masters’s polymer engineering degrees to qualified students.

UMass Amherst also took the #5 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Amherst are $32,341, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#4

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Tech landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Blacksburg, Virginia, this large public school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #5 spot on the list. Case Western is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 14 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Case Western also made our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western Reserve University are $47,958.

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#6

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#4 in overall quality

Auburn University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k list. Auburn, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s polymer engineering degrees to 8 students in 2019-2020.

Auburn also made our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn are $31,956, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#6 in overall quality

University of Akron Main Campus came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s For Those Making $48-$75k ranking. This fairly large school is located in Akron, Ohio, and it awarded 15 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Akron Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Akron Main Campus are $15,217, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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