Top Materials Engineering Schools

The Cornell College of Engineering, with an well-known ranking of 10th in the us of a, had six of its graduate packages diagnosed inside the top 10 of U.S. News and World Report's 2011 ratings of

Northwestern University's Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science is one of the top 3 in the nation for "Materials". The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is recognized throughout the materials community for its educational and research accomplishments.

The Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara is ranked in the top 4 nationally for the specialty. The Materials Department offers programs leading to the Ph.D. degree with specializations in the major areas of: Electronic & Photonic Materials (compound semiconductors, quantum structures, advanced lasers, solid state lighting, microelectromechanical systems); Inorganic Materials (ferroelectrics, optical materials, zeolite molecular sieves and catalysts); and more.

Best Engineering Schools Specialty Rankings: Materials (Top 10 list)

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2 University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

3 Northwestern University (McCormick)

4 University of California--Santa Barbara

5 Stanford University

University of California--Berkeley

7 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor

8 Cornell University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Pennsylvania State University--University Park

University of Florida

Source: US News 2011

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