2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in Delaware

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Doctorate in Delaware” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 689 people earned their degree in materials sciences, making the major the 258th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, materials sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $60,225 and had an average of $23,698 in loans still to pay off.

Across Delaware, there were 17 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,450 and $63,414 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality materials sciences 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 sciences program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Science Schools for a Doctorate in Delaware” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Doctorate in Delaware

The colleges and universities below are the best for delaware doctor’s degree materials science students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in Delaware

#1

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware

#1 in overall quality

$35,192 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Doctorate in Delaware list. UD is a large public school situated in Newark, Delaware. It awarded 8 doctorate’s materials science degrees in 2019-2020.

UD also took the #1 spot in our “Best Materials Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in Delaware” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UD are $35,192, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Materials Sciences at University of Delaware

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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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