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Finding the Best Materials Sciences Master'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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Materials Sciences Master's Degree Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 18 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best master'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 Master’s Degree Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best for materials science majors pursuing a master's degree.

Top 10 Best Materials Sciences Master's Degree Schools

Our 2023 rankings named Rochester Institute of Technology the best school in the United States for materials sciences students working on their master’s degree. RIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Rochester.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of California - Berkeley. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools list. UC Berkeley is a very large public school located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley.

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#3

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public school with a very large student population.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Delaware helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best materials sciences schools in the United States. UD is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Newark.

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Out of the 18 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Santa Barbara landed the # 5 spot on the list. UCSB is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Santa Barbara.

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#6

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Michigan State University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools list. Located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public college with a very large student population.

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Colorado State University - Fort Collins ranked #7 on this year’s Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools list. Colorado State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Fort Collins.

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#8

University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

With a ranking of #8, University of Rochester did quite well on this year’s best schools for materials sciences students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.

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William Paterson University of New Jersey came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Materials Sciences Master’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the large suburb of Wayne, William Paterson University is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree materials sciences programs. UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public school located in the small city of Chapel Hill.

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New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

One of 8 majors within the area of study, materials sciences has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
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 18 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Per Henning.

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