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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
#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA
#2	University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL
#3	University of California–Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA
#4	Stanford University Stanford, CA
#5	Harvard University Cambridge, MA
#6	University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA
#7	Cornell University Ithaca, NY
#8	Princeton University Princeton, NJ
#9	University of Chicago Chicago, IL
#10	California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
#10	University of Maryland–College Park College Park, MD
#12	University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA
#13	Columbia University New York, NY
#14	Pennsylvania State University–University Park University Park, PA
#15	Yale University New Haven, CT
#16	University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI
#17	Ohio State University Columbus, OH
#17	University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
#19	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ