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2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
6 Degrees Awarded
$23,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master's in South Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina 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 South Carolina, there were 50 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,300 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great materials engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the materials 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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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 Master’s in South Carolina 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 Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k.

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

#1

Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clemson University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in South Carolina For Those Making $30-$48k list. Clemson University is located in Clemson, South Carolina and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 masters’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

Clemson not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Clemson University are $23,246.

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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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