NRC Rankings in Materials Science

  1  MIT                                      4.61
  2  Northwestern                             4.47
  3  Cornell                                  4.35
  4  Cal Berkeley                             4.33
  5  Illinois                                 4.29
  6  Stanford                                 4.24
  7  Massachusetts                            4.20
  8  Cal Santa Barbara                        4.18
  9  Penn State                               3.97
 10  Penn                                     3.79
 11  Carnegie Mellon                          3.75
 12  Cal Tech                                 3.75
 13  RPI                                      3.68
 14  Wisconsin                                3.66
 15  Michigan                                 3.66
 16  Florida                                  3.65
 17  Minnesota                                3.64
 18  Case Western                             3.56
 19  Texas                                    3.50
 20  Ohio State                               3.48
 21  Virginia                                 3.44
 22  North Carolina State                     3.44
 23  Lehigh                                   3.44
 24  Rutgers                                  3.36
 25  UCLA                                     3.34
 26  Arizona State                            3.27
 27  Arizona                                  3.25
 28  Columbia                                 3.20
 29  Brown                                    3.18
 30  Akron                                    3.14
 31  Purdue                                   3.05
 32  Johns Hopkins                            3.02
 33  Vanderbilt                               2.98
 34  Utah                                     2.94
 35  Rochester                                2.94
 36  VPI                                      2.92
 37  Drexel                                   2.91
 38  SUNY Stony Brook                         2.90
 39  Washington                               2.88
 40  Massachusetts Lowell                     2.88
 41  Georgia Tech                             2.87
 42  Pittsburgh                               2.80
 43  Missouri Rolla                           2.80
 44  Delaware                                 2.77
 45  Southern Cal                             2.73
 46  Colorado School of Mines                 2.64
 47  Michigan State                           2.58
 48  Maryland                                 2.43
 49  Stevens Tech                             2.40
 50  Duke                                     2.23
 51  Cincinnati                               2.22
 52  Alabama Birmingham                       2.18
 53  South Dakota Mines                       2.08
 54  Illinois Tech                            2.06
 55  Oregon Tech                              2.00
 56  Houston                                  1.90
 57  Notre Dame                               1.88
 58  Alabama Huntsville                       1.85
 59  Kentucky                                 1.71
 60  Wisconsin Milwaukee                      1.68
 61  Auburn                                   1.65
 62  Vermont                                  1.43