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Most Popular Schools for Materials Science Major & Degree Program

A program that focuses on the general application of mathematical and scientific principles to the analysis and evaluation of the characteristics and behavior of solids, including internal structure, chemical properties, transport and energy flow properties, thermodynamics of solids, stress and failure factors, chemical transformation states and processes, compound materials, and research on industrial applications of specific materials.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Carnegie Mellon University 75 2% $72,283
2 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 68 1% $36,652
3 University of California-Berkeley 54 0% $38,066
4 Columbia University in the City of New York 37 0% $76,856
5 University of California-Los Angeles 18 0% $34,620
6 Stevens Institute of Technology 18 1% $69,292
7 University of Arizona 15 0% $29,217
8 University of California-Riverside 13 0% $35,242
9 University of Delaware 11 0% $29,342
10 Missouri State University-Springfield 10 0% $21,782
11 University at Buffalo 10 0% $27,758
12 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10 0% $30,913
13 Rochester Institute of Technology 10 0% $57,401
14 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 9 0% $22,639
15 University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 8 0% $20,349
16 Oregon State University 7 0% $26,892
17 University of California-Santa Barbara 7 0% $36,659
18 University of Rochester 7 0% $72,721
19 Catholic University of America 6 0% $64,560
20 Tuskegee University 6 1% $39,383
21 Air Force Institute of Technology-Graduate School of Engineering & Management 4 1% N/A
22 University of Southern California 3 0% $74,825
23 Wayne State University 2 0% $27,157
24 University of Denver 2 0% $67,656
25 University of Vermont 2 0% $34,210
26 Michigan State University 1 0% $28,862
27 Saint Cloud State University 1 0% $20,991

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Materials Science program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.