2023 Most Popular Materials Sciences Schools
Finding the Best Materials Sciences 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 Most Popular Materials Sciences Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 57 schools in the United States to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Materials Sciences program at each school on the list.
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2023 Most Popular Materials Sciences Schools in the United States
The colleges and universities below are the most popular for materials science majors pursuing a .
Top 10 Most Popular Materials Sciences Schools
Our analysis found Carnegie Mellon University to be the most popular school for materials sciences students who want to pursue a degree in the United States. Located in the city of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of California - Berkeley is a great place for materials sciences students. UC Berkeley is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Berkeley.
The excellent programs at Columbia University in the City of New York helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best materials sciences schools in the United States. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University at Buffalo. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Materials Sciences Schools list. Located in the suburb of Buffalo, University at Buffalo is a public school with a fairly large student population.
Out of the 57 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the # 5 spot on the list. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Amherst.
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Out of the 57 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 very large public school located in the midsize suburb of Santa Barbara.
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Rochester Institute of Technology did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for materials sciences students. It came in at #7 on the list. RIT is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Rochester.
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With a ranking of #8, University of Delaware did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for materials sciences students. UD is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Newark.
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University of California - Riverside did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular schools for materials sciences students. It came in at #9 on the list. UCR is a very large public school located in the city of Riverside.
With a ranking of #10, University of Southern California did quite well on this year’s most popular schools for materials sciences students. Located in the large city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.
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Materials Sciences by Region
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Materials Sciences Related Majors
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 28 schools only.
- 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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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