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













