2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering in Tennessee

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 13,610 people earned their degree in chemical engineering, making the major the 66th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,963 and had an average of $22,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 225 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,125 and $19,531 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in chemical engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent chemical engineering programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the chemical 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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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 Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering in Tennessee

#1

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$20,498 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tennessee Technological University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee list. This fairly large school is located in Cookeville, Tennessee, and it awarded 9 masters’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee master’s degree chem eng students list, Tennessee Tech University has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tennessee Tech University are $20,498, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Tech University

#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s chem eng students in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Chemical Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt University are $50,624, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Vanderbilt University Chemical Engineering Report

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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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