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We present the list of US universities with materials science programs - the best universities with quality Bachelor's, Master's and PhD courses.
Materials science is an interdisciplinary branch of science. Students of this direction study the properties of materials in solid and liquid state, their change. The structure of the program includes: electronic, thermal, chemical, magnetic, optical properties of substances, their structure.
TOP US universities offer to explore this complex area in modern, technically equipped educational institutions and research centers in the United States.
Best materials science universities in USA 2026 - QS World University rankings
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 3 | Harvard University |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 5 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 6 | Northwestern University |
| 7 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 8 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) |
| 9 | Pennsylvania State University |
| 10 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 11 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 12 | University of Texas at Austin |
| 13 | Purdue University |
| 14 | Cornell University |
| 15 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor |
| 16 | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 17 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 18 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 19 | Rice University |
| 20 | Texas A&M University |
| 21 | Columbia University |
| 22 | The Ohio State University |
| 23 | North Carolina State University |
| 24 | Princeton University |
| 25 | Yale University |
| 26 | Arizona State University |
| 27 | University of Minnesota (System) |
| 28 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 29 | University of Washington |
| 30 | University of Colorado Boulder |
| 31 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 32 | Colorado School of Mines |
| 33 | Duke University |
| 34 | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| 35 | University of California, Davis |
| 36 | University of California, Irvine |
| 37 | University of Florida |
| 38 | University of Maryland, College Park |
| 39 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 40 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 41 | Boston University |
| 42 | Brown University |
| 43 | Iowa State University |
| 44 | Michigan State University |
| 45 | Rutgers University–New Brunswick |
| 46 | University of Delaware |
| 47 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) |
| 48 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 49 | University of Pittsburgh |
| 50 | Case Western Reserve University |
