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2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

6 Ranked Colleges
50 Degrees Awarded
$28,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master's in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

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 the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” 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 the Rocky Mountains region, there were 150 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $28,569 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 50 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,560 and $37,817 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in materials engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great materials engineering programs and cost less that 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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Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region (With Aid)

#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana Technological University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. Montana Technological University is a small school located in Butte, Montana that handed out 6 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Montana Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Montana Technological University are $19,429, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Materials Engineering at Montana Technological University

#2

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. This large school is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it awarded 6 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

U of U also made our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #4. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Utah are $24,695, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at U of U

#3

Boise State University

Boise, Idaho
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Boise State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Boise State University is located in Boise, Idaho and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 masters’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

Boise State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boise State are $26,566, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Materials Engineering at Boise State

#4

University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Idaho. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid list. U of I is located in Moscow, Idaho and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 2 masters’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

U of I did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at U of I are $29,112, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full U of I Materials Engineering Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid. Boulder, Colorado is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s materials engineering degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also made our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Boulder are $32,980, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Materials Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder

#6

Colorado School of Mines

Golden, Colorado
#1 in overall quality

Colorado School of Mines landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Getting Aid ranking. Mines is located in Golden, Colorado and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 15 masters’s materials engineering degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our rocky mountains region master’s degree materials engineering students with aid list, Mines has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Colorado School of Mines are $39,800.

Read more about Materials Engineering at Mines

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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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