2023 Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools
Finding the Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree School for You
Materials Sciences is the #179 most popular major in the country with 448 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 14 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best doctor's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.
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2023 Best Materials Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States
Check out the materials science doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.
Top 10 Best Materials Sciences Doctor's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named University of California - Santa Barbara the best school in the United States for materials sciences students working on their doctor’s degree. UCSB is a very large public school located in the suburb of Santa Barbara.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of California - Berkeley is a great place for materials sciences students working on their doctor’s degree. UC Berkeley is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Materials Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools list. UD is a very large public school located in the suburb of Newark.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Arizona is a great place for materials sciences students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public school with a very large student population.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of Rochester is a great place for materials sciences students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.
University of California - Riverside came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Materials Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. UCR is a fairly large public school located in the city of Riverside.
Oregon State University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Materials Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Oregon State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Corvallis.
University of Georgia did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for materials sciences students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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Michigan State University came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Materials Sciences Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public college with a fairly large student population.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for materials sciences students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.
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Rankings in Majors Related to Materials Science
One of 8 majors within the area of study, materials sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Related Majors
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Chemistry | 5,005 |
Physics | 3,727 |
Geological & Earth Sciences | 2,491 |
Astronomy & Astrophysics | 371 |
Atmospheric Sciences & Meteorology | 342 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 14 schools only.
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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