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TOP-100 best universities in materials science 2025 QS Rankings

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TOP-100 best universities in materials science 2025 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Materials Science

The ranking of the best universities in the world in materials science are universities with bachelor's, master's and PhD programs in this section of science. Students of these universities study the properties of materials in the best conditions and under the guidance of the strongest teachers.

The curriculum includes the study of the properties of materials in the solid and liquid state, magnetic, optical, electronic, thermal and chemical properties of substances. One of the advantages of top universities is the opportunity to study this area on the basis of a developed research infrastructure.

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Materials Science

Rank	University	Overall Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	93,8
2	Stanford University	91,1
=3	Harvard University	90,5
=3	Cambridge University	90,5
5	Nanyang Technological University	90,4
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	89,5
7	University of Oxford	88,7
8	National University of Singapore (NUS)	88,6
9	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	87,7
10	EPFL	87,5
11	Imperial College London	87,4
12	Tsinghua University	86,7
13	Georgia Institute of Technology	85,9
14	Delft University of Technology	84,2
15	The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	83,4
16	Northwestern University	83,3
=17	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	83,1
=17	Peking University	83,1
19	University of Manchester	82,7
20	University of Tokyo	82,6
21	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	82,3
22	Seoul National University	82,0
=23	Technical University of Munich	81,8
=23	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	81,8
=25	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	81,6
=25	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	81,6
27	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	80,9
28	RWTH Aachen University	80,8
29	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	80,7
=30	Pennsylvania State University	80,5
=30	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	80,5
32	Technische Universität Dresden	80,4
=33	KU Leuven	79,7
=33	Monash University	79,7
=33	Purdue University - West Lafayette	79,7
=36	Cornell University	79,5
=36	University of Texas at Austin	79,5
=36	University of Toronto	79,5
39	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	79,3
40	Zhejiang University	79,0
=41	Politecnico di Milano	78,9
=41	UCL	78,9
43	King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)	78,8
44	Fudan University	78,3
45	Pohang University of Science And Technology	78,2
46	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	78,1
47	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	78,0
48	Kyoto University	77,5
49	Yonsei University	77,3
=50	Tohoku University	77,2
=50	University of Science and Technology of China	77,2
52	McGill University	77,1
53	Université Paris-Saclay	77,0
54	The University of Sheffield	76,9
55	Carnegie Mellon University	76,7
=56	Chalmers University of Technology	76,6
=56	Harbin Institute of Technology	76,6
=56	Technical University of Denmark	76,6
59	University of British Columbia	76,5
60	Eindhoven University of Technology	76,4
61	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	76,2
=62	City University of Hong Kong	76,1
=62	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	76,1
=62	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	76,1
65	Nanjing University	75,8
66	Politecnico di Torino	75,7
=67	Princeton University	75,4
=67	The University of Melbourne	75,4
=67	University of Pennsylvania	75,4
=70	The University of Queensland	75,2
=70	University of Birmingham	75,2
72	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL	75,1
73	Ghent University	75,0
=74	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	74,9
=74	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	74,9
=74	The University of Sydney	74,9
77	National Taiwan University (NTU)	74,8
78	Hanyang University	74,7
=79	The University of Hong Kong	74,6
=79	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	74,6
=79	University of Waterloo	74,6
82	Indian Institute of Science	74,5
=83	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	74,4
=83	The Ohio State University	74,4
=85	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	74,2
=85	Norwegian University of Science And Technology	74,2
87	Osaka University	74,1
88	Linköping University	74,0
=89	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	73,9
=89	Texas A&M University	73,9
=91	Columbia University	73,8
=91	Rice University	73,8
=91	Uppsala University	73,8
94	RMIT University	73,6
=95	Sorbonne University	73,5
=95	Université Grenoble Alpes	73,5
=97	Swansea University	73,4
=97	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	73,4
=97	University of Science and Technology Beijing	73,4
=100	Korea University	73,3

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