World's Best Universities
Metallurgy and Materials
Metallurgy and materials students learn about the structure and properties of materials. Graduates can go on to become reliability engineers, ceramic dry press engineers, and components engineers. These are the world's top universities for metallurgy and materials. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | 77.5 | 78.1 | 84.3 | 75.7 | |
| #35 | 71.3 | 66.8 | 64.9 | 76.1 | |
| #7 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
80.0 | 80.7 | 95.0 | 76.5 |
| #22 |
Monash University
Australia |
74.2 | 68.1 | 86.7 | 76.6 |
| #39 | 70.6 | 62.2 | 73.1 | 76.9 | |
| #13 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
77.4 | 81.0 | 63.3 | 77.4 |
| #46 |
University of Queensland (UQ)
Australia |
69.5 | 55.5 | 85.9 | 77.4 |
| #17 |
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
United States |
76.2 | 76.5 | 68.7 | 77.5 |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
84.6 | 88.9 | 98.9 | 78.3 |
| #41 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
70.0 | 58.7 | 72.4 | 78.6 |
| #32 |
Columbia University
United States |
72.0 | 60.7 | 82.3 | 78.9 |
| #40 | 70.2 | 59.4 | 67.2 | 79.4 | |
| #18 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
75.5 | 72.5 | 66.0 | 79.7 |
| #50 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
68.5 | 70.1 | 81.0 | |
| #4 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
82.9 | 84.3 | 82.7 | 81.8 |
| #15 |
Princeton University
United States |
76.7 | 67.7 | 85.0 | 82.2 |
| #10 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
78.6 | 72.3 | 85.8 | 82.2 |
| #2 |
Stanford University
United States |
85.0 | 87.0 | 88.4 | 82.8 |
| #5 |
Harvard University
United States |
82.7 | 76.5 | 100.0 | 84.2 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
91.4 | 100.0 | 90.4 | 84.7 |
| #6 |
Northwestern University
United States |
80.8 | 76.6 | 76.6 | 84.9 |
| #37 |
University of Washington
United States |
71.0 | 54.9 | 65.2 | 85.1 |
| #16 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
76.6 | 65.8 | 75.2 | 85.5 |
| #26 |
Rice University
United States |
73.5 | 55.3 | 53.4 | 92.0 |
| #9 |
Johns Hopkins University
United States |
78.7 | 53.7 | 72.3 | 100.0 |













