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2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s

6 Ranked Colleges
83 Degrees Awarded
$30,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master's

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Polymer & Plastics Engineering is the 287th most popular major in the country with 330 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, polymer and plastics engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $65,100 and had an average of $25,167 in loans still to pay off.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 83 polymer and plastics engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in polymer and plastics engineering. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great polymer and plastics engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the polymer and plastics engineering program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s.

Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Polymer & Plastics Engineering

#6 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s. Akron, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s polymer engineering degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

University of Akron Main Campus also took the #6 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Akron Main Campus are $15,217.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Akron Main Campus

#2

Lehigh University

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Lehigh University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified masters’s polymer engineering students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Lehigh, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Lehigh are $27,130.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Lehigh University

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #3 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Lowell, Massachusetts, and it awarded 26 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Lowell also took the #3 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Lowell are $26,990, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full University of Massachusetts - Lowell Polymer & Plastics Engineering Report

#4

Auburn University

Auburn, Alabama
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Auburn University landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Auburn, Alabama, and it awarded 8 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Auburn, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Auburn are $31,956, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Auburn University

#5

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #5 spot on the list. This large school is located in Amherst, Massachusetts, and it awarded 11 masters’s polymer engineering degrees in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst also took the #5 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UMass Amherst are $32,341, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Polymer & Plastics Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst

#2 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, Case Western Reserve University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Polymer Engineering Schools for a Master’s list. Cleveland, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s polymer engineering degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Case Western also took the #2 spot in our “Best Polymer & Plastics Engineering Master’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western Reserve University are $47,958, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Polymer & Plastics Engineering at Case Western

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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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