2022 Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

General Materials Engineering is the 189th most popular major in the country with 3,485 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Kentucky, there were 20 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 general materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,800 and $117,458 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general materials 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 general materials 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 Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Materials Engineering in Kentucky (With Aid)

#1

University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$33,216 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Materials Processing and Manufacturing Schools for a Doctorate in Kentucky For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kentucky landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lexington, Kentucky, and it awarded 5 doctorate’s materials processing and manufacturing degrees in 2019-2020.

UK did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UK are $33,216, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about General Materials Engineering at University of Kentucky

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General 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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