<p>This isn't a very popular major but I'm curious to know what are the top Material science departments? Not too many universities offer it so I imagine those out of the top 25 aren't too good.</p>
<p>Thanks for any replies,</p>
<p>Yes, Material Sciences is a relatively new field and is availlable only at a few universities around the nation. According to the latest USNWR undergraduate Materials Sciences rankings:</p>
<h1>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>2 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign</h1>
<h1>3 Northwestern University</h1>
<h1>3 University of California-Berkeley</h1>
<h1>3 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor</h1>
<h1>6 Stanford University</h1>
<h1>7 Georgia Institute of Technology</h1>
<h1>7 Pennsylvania State University-University Park</h1>
<h1>9 Cornell University</h1>
<h1>10 University of Florida</h1>
<h1>11 Carnegie Mellon University</h1>
<h1>12 Purdue University-West Lafayette</h1>
<h1>13 Ohio State University-Columbus</h1>
<h1>14 Virginia Tech</h1>
<h1>15 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</h1>
<h1>16 North Carolina State University-Raleigh</h1>
<h1>16 University of Pennsylvania</h1>
<h1>16 University of Texas-Austin</h1>
<h1>16 University of Wisconsin-Madison</h1>
<p>I found the NRC rankings:</p>
<p>1 MIT 4.61
2 Northwestern 4.47
3 Cornell 4.35
4 Cal Berkeley 4.33
5 Illinois 4.29
6 Stanford 4.24
7 Massachusetts 4.20
8 Cal Santa Barbara 4.18
9 Penn State 3.97
10 Penn 3.79
11 Carnegie Mellon 3.75
12 Cal Tech 3.75
13 RPI 3.68
14 Wisconsin 3.66
15 Michigan 3.66
16 Florida 3.65
17 Minnesota 3.64
18 Case Western 3.56
19 Texas 3.50
20 Ohio State 3.48
21 Virginia 3.44
22 North Carolina State 3.44
23 Lehigh 3.44
24 Rutgers 3.36
25 UCLA 3.34</p>
<p>The NRC rankings are based on date that is almost 15 years old. Material Sciences is a relatively new field. A lot has changed in that field in recent years.</p>