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2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

7 Ranked Colleges
173 Degrees Awarded
$40,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master's in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Materials Sciences is the 258th most popular major in the country with 689 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 248 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,800 and $24,806 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 173 materials sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in materials sciences. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality materials sciences programs that also have a lower cost than 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 materials sciences program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 7 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Materials Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

University at Buffalo

Buffalo, New York
#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. University at Buffalo is located in Buffalo, New York and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 27 masters’s materials science degrees to qualified students.

University at Buffalo did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University at Buffalo are $26,028.

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#7 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, William Paterson University of New Jersey landed the #2 spot on the list. William Paterson University of New Jersey is a public institution located in Wayne, New Jersey. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 9 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

William Paterson University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at William Paterson University are $20,970, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#3

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Newark, Delaware is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s materials science degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UD also took the #4 spot in our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Delaware are $35,192.

Full UD Materials Sciences Report

#4

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Carnegie Mellon University landed the #4 spot on the list. Carnegie Mellon University is a fairly large school located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that handed out 46 masters’s materials science degrees in 2019-2020.

Carnegie Mellon not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Carnegie Mellon are $47,326, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia University in the City of New York. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Columbia University in the City of New York is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 36 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree materials science students list, Columbia has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Columbia University in the City of New York are $51,194, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Columbia Materials Sciences Report

#5 in overall quality

Rochester Institute of Technology did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #6. Rochester Institute of Technology is located in Rochester, New York and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s materials science degrees to qualified students.

RIT also took the #5 spot in our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at RIT are $50,442, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#7

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York
#3 in overall quality

University of Rochester did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Materials Science Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, coming in at #7. University of Rochester is a fairly large school located in Rochester, New York that handed out 10 masters’s materials science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Rochester, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rochester are $50,505, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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.

Credits

  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Per Henning.

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