Materials Best Engineering Schools

Ranked in 2010

Materials engineers use creativity to find new ways to use products and may specialize in a specific material, such as plastics, ceramics, or steel. These are the top graduate schools for materials engineering.

Editor's note: Due to an initial data processing error, the ranking of several schools on this list have changed. As of March 18, 2011, these rankings have been carried over from those published in the 2011 edition which were ranked in 2010. This is the corrected list. However the discrepancies in the rankings themselves were not able to be corrected in the 2012 print edition of Best Graduate Schools.

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#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	4.9	Full-time: $38,940 per year	2,677	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#2	University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL	4.7	In-state, full-time: $14,932 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $28,198 per year	2,711	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#3	Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL	4.6	Full-time: $39,840 per year	1,439	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#4	University of California--Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	4.5	Out-of-state, full-time: $15,102 per year	707	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#5	Stanford University Stanford, CA	4.4	Full-time: $41,220 per year	3,572	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#5	University of California--Berkeley Berkeley, CA	4.4	In-state, full-time: $9,402 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $15,102 per year	1,759	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#7	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	4.2	In-state, full-time: $20,256 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $38,116 per year	2,955	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#8	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	4.1	Full-time: $29,500 per year	1,665	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#8	Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA	4.1	In-state, full-time: $8,636 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $26,204 per year	4,607	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#8	Pennsylvania State University--University Park University Park, PA	4.1	In-state, full-time: $17,292 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $29,716 per year	1,937	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked
#8	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	4.1	In-state, full-time: $10,916 per year, Out-of-state, full-time: $28,309 per year	2,955	Locked	Locked	Locked	Locked

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