2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in Alabama

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” ranking - to help you make that 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 Alabama, there were 65 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,200 and $24,504 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 materials engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,487 and $41,507 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in materials engineering. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent materials engineering programs, but they also 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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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 Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama master’s degree materials engineering students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Engineering in Alabama

#1

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$31,956 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Auburn University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama. Auburn is a large public school situated in Auburn, Alabama. It awarded 11 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

Auburn also made our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn are $31,956, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Materials Engineering at Auburn University

#2

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$19,188 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Materials Engineering Schools for a Master’s in Alabama that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Alabama at Birmingham landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Alabama at Birmingham is a large public school situated in Birmingham, Alabama. It awarded 13 masters’s materials engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UAB also made our “Best Materials Engineering Master’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Alabama at Birmingham are $19,188, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Alabama at Birmingham Materials 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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