Top Performing Schools in Material Science
Material Science has played an important part in the innovations that we have now in our gadgets and MIT, Stanford U and Imperial College London have proven to be the best schools to take an undergraduate or graduate degree in this field.
Materials engineers creatively find new ways to use products and may specialize in a specific material, such as plastics, ceramics or steel. These are the top schools for materials engineering. Each school’s score reflects its rating on a scale from 1 (poor) to 100 (excellent), based on a survey of academics at QS.
The rankings by QS World University Rankings by Subject were developed together with Elsevier to aid freshmen and transferees in identifying the leading universities in their chosen field. Factors that were considered in completing the list include academic and employer reputation, research citations per paper and H-index.
The table below lists the Top 50 Schools that specializes in Material Science.
| Rank | Over-All Score | University | Country |
| 1 | 98 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 2 | 94.9 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | 91.9 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 4 | 91.8 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 5 | 91.7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 6 | 90.2 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 7 | 89.9 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 8 | 89.6 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 9 | 89.1 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 10 | 87.8 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 11 | 87.3 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 11 | 87.3 | Harvard University | United States |
| 12 | 87.2 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 13 | 87.1 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 14 | 86.6 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 15 | 86.5 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 16 | 86 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 17 | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | South Korea | |
| 18 | 83.8 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 19 | 83.6 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 20 | 83.4 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| 21 | 83.3 | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 22 | 83.2 | Peking University | China |
| 23 | 82.9 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 24 | 82 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 25 | 81.5 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 26 | 81.4 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 27 | 81.4 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 28 | University of Michigan | United States | |
| 29 | 81 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
| 30 | 80.9 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China |
| 31 | 80.8 | Cornell University | United States |
| 32 | 80.7 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) | Australia |
| 33 | 80.3 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States |
| 34 | 80.3 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 35 | 79.7 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 36 | 79.6 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
| 37 | 79 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | South Korea |
| 38 | 78.7 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 39 | 78.6 | Fudan University | China |
| 40 | 78.6 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
| 41 | 78.4 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 42 | 78.3 | Purdue University | United States |
| 43 | 78.2 | Osaka University | Japan |
| 44 | 77.8 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 45 | 77.3 | McGill University | Canada |
| 46 | 77.1 | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore | India |
| 47 | 76.8 | Princeton University | United States |
| 48 | 76.7 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
| 49 | 76.5 | Rice University | United States |
