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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #13 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
77.4 | 81.0 | 63.3 | 77.4 |
| #18 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
75.5 | 72.5 | 66.0 | 79.7 |
| #32 |
Columbia University
United States |
72.0 | 60.7 | 82.3 | 78.9 |
| #20 |
Cornell University
United States |
74.5 | 72.8 | 76.5 | 75.4 |
| #33 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
71.7 | 71.2 | 74.7 | 71.5 |
| #12 | 77.5 | 78.1 | 84.3 | 75.7 | |
| #11 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
77.9 | 84.4 | 67.5 | 74.7 |
| #35 | 71.3 | 66.8 | 64.9 | 76.1 | |
| #5 |
Harvard University
United States |
82.7 | 76.5 | 100.0 | 84.2 |
| #36 | 71.1 | 70.3 | 75.0 | 71.0 | |
| #14 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
77.1 | 84.3 | 81.9 | 70.3 |
| #39 | 70.6 | 62.2 | 73.1 | 76.9 | |
| #9 |
Johns Hopkins University
United States |
78.7 | 53.7 | 72.3 | 100.0 |
| #42 | 69.8 | 64.6 | 76.6 | 72.5 | |
| #26 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
73.5 | 79.4 | 91.8 | 65.1 |
| #40 | 70.2 | 59.4 | 67.2 | 79.4 | |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
91.4 | 100.0 | 90.4 | 84.7 |
| #22 |
Monash University
Australia |
74.2 | 68.1 | 86.7 | 76.6 |
| #31 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
72.2 | 78.2 | 92.6 | 63.3 |
| #7 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
80.0 | 80.7 | 95.0 | 76.5 |
| #6 |
Northwestern University
United States |
80.8 | 76.6 | 76.6 | 84.9 |
| #48 |
Osaka University
Japan |
68.6 | 75.5 | 89.0 | 58.9 |
| #44 |
Peking University
China |
69.6 | 64.2 | 95.0 | 68.8 |
| #17 |
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
United States |
76.2 | 76.5 | 68.7 | 77.5 |
| #15 |
Princeton University
United States |
76.7 | 67.7 | 85.0 | 82.2 |













