Materials Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
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 graduate schools for materials engineering. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.8 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#2 | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | 4.7 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 2,088 | 166 | $114,089,862 | ||||||
#3 | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 4.6 | $12,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,396 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 721 | 165 | $106,551,188 | ||||||
#4 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.5 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#5Tie | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4.4 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#5Tie | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.4 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#5Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 4.4 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#8 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.1 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#9Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 4.0 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#9Tie | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 4.0 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#11Tie | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 3.8 | $43,000 per year (full-time) | 3,737 | 166 | $195,765,115 | ||||||
#11Tie | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 3.8 | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | ||||||
#13 | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.7 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#14Tie | Harvard University Cambridge, MA | 3.5 | $43,296 per year (full-time) | 478 | 166 | $50,054,491 | ||||||
#14Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 3.5 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#14Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 3.5 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#17Tie | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC | 3.4 | $8,088 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,610 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,303 | 164 | $188,960,115 | ||||||
#17Tie | University of Florida Gainesville, FL | 3.4 | $12,737 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,130 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,067 | 163 | $69,346,000 | ||||||
#19 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.3 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#20Tie | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY | 3.2 | $44,592 per year (full-time) | 3,350 | 167 | $146,963,000 | ||||||
#20Tie | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | 3.2 | $50,410 per year (full-time) | 3,692 | 166 | $121,140,156 | ||||||
#22Tie | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY | 3.1 | $49,520 per year (full-time) | 646 | 164 | $53,892,000 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | 3.1 | $12,684 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,786 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,187 | 166 | $96,988,104 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 3.1 | $16,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,120 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,923 | 164 | $122,194,826 | ||||||
#22Tie | University of Washington Seattle, WA | 3.1 | $16,917 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,153 per year (out-of-state, full-time) |