For partners 
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 2026 QS: Materials Science
| # | University | Ranking |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 94.4 |
| 2 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 90.9 |
| =3 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) | 90.8 |
| =3 | Stanford University | 90.8 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge | 90.1 |
| 6 | Harvard University | 89.9 |
| 7 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 89.2 |
| 8 | University of Oxford | 88.3 |
| 9 | Tsinghua University | 88 |
| =10 | ETH Zurich | 87.2 |
| =10 | Imperial College London | 87.2 |
| 12 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 86.6 |
| 13 | EPFL – École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne | 86.3 |
| 14 | Delft University of Technology | 84.6 |
| 15 | Northwestern University | 84.5 |
| 16 | Peking University | 83.9 |
| 17 | The University of Manchester | 83.2 |
| 18 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 82.9 |
| 19 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 82.8 |
| =20 | Seoul National University | 82.6 |
| =20 | The University of Tokyo | 82.6 |
| =22 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | 81.8 |
| =22 | Zhejiang University | 81.8 |
| =24 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 81 |
| =24 | Pennsylvania State University | 81 |
| =26 | KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 80.5 |
| =26 | Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 80.5 |
| 28 | Institute of Science Tokyo | 80.2 |
| 29 | RWTH Aachen University | 80 |
| 30 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | 79.9 |
| =31 | Technical University of Munich | 79.7 |
| =31 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 79.7 |
| =33 | Monash University | 79.6 |
| =33 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | 79.6 |
| 35 | Technische Universität Dresden | 79.4 |
| 36 | King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) | 79.3 |
| 37 | University of Texas at Austin | 78.8 |
| 38 | University of Toronto | 78.7 |
| =39 | City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) | 78.6 |
| =39 | KU Leuven | 78.6 |
| =39 | Purdue University | 78.6 |
| =39 | University of British Columbia | 78.6 |
| =39 | Yonsei University | 78.6 |
| 44 | Cornell University | 78.5 |
| =45 | Fudan University | 78.3 |
| =45 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 78.3 |
| 47 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 78.2 |
| 48 | Politecnico di Milano | 78 |
| 49 | Technical University of Denmark | 77.6 |
| 50 | Carnegie Mellon University | 77.4 |
| =51 | UCL | 77.3 |
| =51 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 77.3 |
| 53 | Korea University | 77.2 |
| =54 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 76.9 |
| =54 | The University of Sheffield | 76.9 |
| =54 | University of Science and Technology of China | 76.9 |
| =57 | McGill University | 76.8 |
| =57 | The University of Queensland | 76.8 |
| =57 | University of Pennsylvania | 76.8 |
| 60 | Rice University | 76.7 |
| 61 | Kyoto University | 76.6 |
| =62 | Texas A&M University | 76.3 |
| =62 | Tohoku University | 76.3 |
| =64 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) | 76.2 |
| =64 | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 76.2 |
| =64 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) | 76.2 |
| 67 | Hanyang University | 76.1 |
| 68 | The University of Sydney | 75.8 |
| 69 | Nanjing University | 75.7 |
| =70 | RMIT University | 75.6 |
| =70 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | 75.6 |
| 72 | Politecnico di Torino | 75.4 |
| =73 | Ghent University | 75.3 |
| =73 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore | 75.3 |
| 75 | The University of Hong Kong | 75.2 |
| =76 | Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) | 75.1 |
| =76 | University of Birmingham | 75.1 |
| =78 | Chalmers University of Technology | 75 |
| =78 | University of Science and Technology Beijing | 75 |
| 80 | The University of Melbourne | 74.9 |
| 81 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) | 74.8 |
| =82 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) | 74.6 |
| =82 | University of Waterloo | 74.6 |
| =84 | Linköping University | 74.5 |
| =84 | University of Nottingham | 74.5 |
| 86 | Norwegian University of Science And Technology | 74.4 |
| =87 | Beijing Institute of Technology | 74.3 |
| =87 | Columbia University | 74.3 |
| =87 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 74.3 |
| =87 | University of Wollongong | 74.3 |
| =91 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | 74.2 |
| =91 | Universiti Malaya (UM) | 74.2 |
| 93 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 74.1 |
| 94 | Université PSL | 74 |
| 95 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 73.9 |
| =96 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | 73.8 |
| =96 | The Ohio State University | 73.8 |
| =96 | Uppsala University | 73.8 |
| =96 | Xi’an Jiaotong University | 73.8 |
| 100 | King Saud University | 73.7 |
