Top Schools in Materials Engineering Top Materials Engineering Schools in the U.S. Ranking School Name Location 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 2 Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL 3 University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 4 University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 5 University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA 6 Stanford University Stanford, CA 7 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 8 Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 9 Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA 10 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 11 California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 12 Cornell University Ithaca, NY 13 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 14 Purdue University–West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN 15 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 16 Ohio State University Columbus, OH 17 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 18 University of Texas–Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX 19 University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI 20 University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN 21 Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD 22 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 23 University of California–Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA 24 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 25 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 26 Iowa State University Ames, IA 27 Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA 28 North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 29 University of California–San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA 30 University of Maryland–College Park (Clark) College Park, MD 31 University of Massachusetts–Amherst Amherst, MA 32 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 33 University of Washington Seattle, WA 34 Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ 35 Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 36 University of California–Davis Davis, CA 37 Rutgers University-New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ 38 University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA 39 Alfred University–New York State College of Ceramics (Inamori) Alfred, NY 40 Brown University Providence, RI 41 Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY 42 Drexel University Philadelphia, PA 43 Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI 44 Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX 45 State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 46 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 47 University of California–Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA 48 University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 49 Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 50 University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA
