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

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.

Across Virginia, there were 7 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality polymer and plastics engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia doctor’s degree polymer engineering students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in Virginia (With Aid)

#1

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$30,547 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Virginia Tech. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Virginia For Those Getting Aid list. Virginia Tech is a large school located in Blacksburg, Virginia that handed out 5 doctorate’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Virginia Tech also made our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Virginia Tech are $30,547, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Virginia Tech Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for 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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