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2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
31 Degrees Awarded
$28,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana For Those Making $30-$48k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Materials Engineering is the 150th most popular major in the country with 3,485 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, materials engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $63,129 and had an average of $23,918 in loans still to pay off.

Across Indiana, there were 100 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $24,251 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,113 and $102,081 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality 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 materials 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for indiana doctor’s degree materials engineering students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering (Income $30-$48k) in Indiana

#1

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, Indiana
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana For Those Making $30-$48k list. Purdue is a large public school situated in West Lafayette, Indiana. It awarded 31 doctorate’s materials engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Purdue not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Materials Engineering Doctor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Purdue are $28,794.

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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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