Condensed Matter

Ranked in 2010, part of Physics

Discovering, understanding, and using materials is central to condensed matter physics, a broad research area for graduate students and working physicists. These are the top physics schools for condensed matter courses.

Rank School name
#10 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

#13 Columbia University

New York, NY

#7 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

#5 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

#17 Ohio State University

Columbus, OH

#14 Pennsylvania State University–​University Park

University Park, PA

#8 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

#19 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–​New Brunswick

Piscataway, NJ

#4 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

#6 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

#12 University of California–​San Diego

La Jolla, CA

#3 University of California–​Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA

#9 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

#2 University of Illinois–​Urbana-​Champaign

Urbana, IL

#10 University of Maryland–​College Park

College Park, MD

#16 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

#17 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

#15 Yale University

New Haven, CT

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
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