Top 300 MSE Programs Worldwide by Academic Ranking

Posted by MSE Supplies on Jul 21, 2017

ARWU recently released its academic rankings by subject areas. Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is one of the ranked subject fields.

Although the top 100 institutions ranked in this list have much overlap with other rankings, such as the U.S.News ranking of the top 100 universities for materials science, the specific positions of individual institutions actually vary a lot.

The top ranked institutions in MSE are also those that have attracted the most cited researchers in materials science. The reputation of a materials science and engineering program has a strong dependence on its academic excellence, which is supported by the researchers who work there. The institutions that can successfully recruit top researchers may be on a fast lane to move up on the ranking positions.

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Top 300 MSE Programs Worldwide by Academic Ranking

World Rank	Institution*	Total Score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	369.6
2	University of California, Berkeley	366.7
3	University of Cambridge	328.5
4	Stanford University	312.5
5	Northwestern University	305.6
6	Georgia Institute of Technology	288.9
7	Harvard University	287.4
8	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	284
9	University of California, Los Angeles	278.2
10	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	260.4
11	University of Oxford	248.9
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	245.8
13	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	236.9
14	Cornell University	230.5
15	Tsinghua University	225.9
16	The University of Texas at Austin	224.2
17	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	222.5
18	University of California, Santa Barbara	222
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	221.8
20	California Institute of Technology	221.5
20	Nanyang Technological University	221.5
22	University of Chicago	221.4
23	Tohoku University	217.5
24	National University of Singapore	215.5
25	The University of Tokyo	212.8
26	University of California, San Diego	210.9
27	University of California, Riverside	205.2
28	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	198.2
29	Rice University	197.7
30	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	197.5
31	Zhejiang University	195.5
32	University of Science and Technology of China	194.7
33	Princeton University	194.6
34	Kyoto University	194.2
35	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	194.1
36	University of Wisconsin - Madison	193.6
37	University of Pennsylvania	192.9
38	Fudan University	191.5
39	University College London	190.9
40	Peking University	190.7
41	Carnegie Mellon University	190.2
42	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	189.8
43	Université Grenoble Alpes	188.9
44	TU Dresden	188.3
45	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	188.1
46	Weizmann Institute of Science	187.7
47	Seoul National University	187.5
48	Sungkyunkwan University	183.8
49	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology	182.3
50	University of Massachusetts Amherst	179.8
51-75	City University of Hong Kong
51-75	Columbia University
51-75	Delft University of Technology
51-75	Duke University
51-75	Huazhong University of Science and Technology
51-75	Jilin University
51-75	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
51-75	King Abdulaziz University
51-75	Monash University
51-75	Nanjing University
51-75	Osaka University
51-75	Pohang University of Science and Technology
51-75	Purdue University - West Lafayette
51-75	RWTH Aachen University
51-75	Soochow University (China)
51-75	Technical University of Denmark
51-75	The University of Manchester
51-75	The University of New South Wales
51-75	University of Bristol
51-75	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
51-75	University of Houston
51-75	University of Montpellier
51-75	University of Munich
51-75	University of Toronto
51-75	Xian Jiao Tong University
76-100	Eindhoven University of Technology
76-100	Hanyang University
76-100	Harbin Institute of Technology
76-100	Johns Hopkins University
76-100	Korea University
76-100	KU Leuven
76-100	Kyushu University
76-100	Linkoping University
76-100	National Taiwan University
76-100	National Tsing Hua University
76-100	North Carolina State University - Raleigh
76-100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
76-100	Sichuan University
76-100	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
76-100	The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
76-100	The University of Sheffield
76-100	Tokyo Institute of Technology
76-100	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
76-100	University of Barcelona
76-100	University of California, Davis
76-100	University of Colorado at Boulder
76-100	University of Groningen
76-100	University of Science and Technology Beijing
76-100	University of Southern California
76-100	University of Washington
101-150	Aalto University
101-150	Aix Marseille University
101-150	Arizona State University
101-150	Beijing Institute of Technology
101-150	Beijing University of Chemical Technology
101-150	Chalmers University of Technology
101-150	Hokkaido University
101-150	Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
101-150	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
101-150	Lund University
101-150	Nagoya University
101-150	Nankai University
101-150	Northeastern University
101-150	Polytechnic Institute of Milan
101-150	Sapienza University of Rome
101-150	South China University of Technology
101-150	Southeast University
101-150	Sun Yat-sen University
101-150	Technical University Munich
101-150	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
101-150	Texas A&M University
101-150	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
101-150	The University of Melbourne
101-150	The University of Texas at Dallas
101-150	Trinity College Dublin
101-150	University of Antwerp
101-150	University of Arizona
101-150	University of Birmingham
101-150	University of British Columbia
101-150	University of Maryland, College Park
101-150	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
101-150	University of Muenster
101-150	University of Nebraska - Lincoln
101-150	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
101-150	University of Nottingham
101-150	University of Picardie Jules Verne
101-150	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus
101-150	University of Southampton
101-150	University of St Andrews
101-150	University of Stuttgart
101-150	University of Sydney
101-150	University of Waterloo
101-150	University of Wollongong
101-150	Uppsala University
101-150	Utrecht University
101-150	Vanderbilt University
101-150	Wuhan University of Technology
101-150	Xiamen University
101-150	Yale University
101-150	Yonsei University
151-200	Autonomous University of Barcelona
151-200	Beihang University
151-200	Boston University
151-200	Case Western Reserve University
151-200	Central South University
151-200	Dalhousie University
151-200	Dalian University of Technology
151-200	Drexel University
151-200	Emory University
151-200	ESPCI ParisTech
151-200	Florida State University
151-200	Free University Berlin
151-200	Ghent University
151-200	Iowa State University
151-200	Islamic Azad University
151-200	King Saud University
151-200	LILLE 1 University - Science and Technology
151-200	McGill University
151-200	NanJing Tech University
151-200	Nanjing University of Science and Technology
151-200	National Chiao Tung University
151-200	National Graduate School of Chemistry, Paris
151-200	New York University
151-200	Northwestern Polytechnical University
151-200	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)
151-200	Polytechnic University of Turin
151-200	Queen Mary University of London
151-200	Radboud University Nijmegen
151-200	Shandong University
151-200	Shanghai University
151-200	Stony Brook University
151-200	Technical University Darmstadt
151-200	The Australian National University
151-200	The Ohio State University - Columbus
151-200	The University of Queensland
151-200	Tianjin University
151-200	University of Basel
151-200	University of Bath
151-200	University of Copenhagen
151-200	University of Florida
151-200	University of Geneva
151-200	University of Jena
151-200	University of Mainz
151-200	University of Strasbourg
151-200	University of the Basque Country
151-200	University of Twente
151-200	University of Warwick
151-200	University of Zaragoza
151-200	Vienna University of Technology
151-200	Wuhan University
201-300	Aarhus University
201-300	Bar-Ilan University
201-300	Brown University
201-300	Charles University in Prague
201-300	Chemnitz University of Technology
201-300	Chonbuk National University
201-300	Chongqing University
201-300	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
201-300	Donghua University
201-300	East China University of Science and Technology
201-300	Ecole Polytechnique
201-300	Florida International University
201-300	Fuzhou University
201-300	Graz University of Technology
201-300	Hefei University of Technology
201-300	Hong Kong Baptist University
201-300	Huazhong Normal University
201-300	Humboldt University of Berlin
201-300	Hunan University
201-300	Indian Institute of Science
201-300	INSA Lyon
201-300	Johannes Kepler University Linz
201-300	Kent State University
201-300	King's College London
201-300	Kyung Hee University
201-300	Lanzhou University
201-300	McMaster University
201-300	Michigan State University
201-300	Moscow State University
201-300	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
201-300	Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
201-300	National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
201-300	Newcastle University
201-300	Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU
201-300	Polytechnic University of Catalonia
201-300	Polytechnic University of Valencia
201-300	Queensland University of Technology
201-300	RMIT University
201-300	Sejong University
201-300	Southwest Jiaotong University
201-300	Technical University of Berlin
201-300	The Chinese University of Hong Kong
201-300	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
201-300	The University of Adelaide
201-300	The University of Akron
201-300	The University of Edinburgh
201-300	The University of Hong Kong
201-300	Tokyo University of Science
201-300	Tongji University
201-300	Tufts University
201-300	University Djillali Liabes Sidi Bel Abbes
201-300	University of Amsterdam
201-300	University of Aveiro
201-300	University of Belgrade
201-300	University of Bochum
201-300	University of Bologna
201-300	University of Caen Lower Normandy
201-300	University of California, Irvine
201-300	University of California, Santa Cruz
201-300	University of Connecticut
201-300	University of Crete
201-300	University of Duisburg-Essen
201-300	University of Florence
201-300	University of Freiburg
201-300	University of Giessen
201-300	University of Goettingen
201-300	University of Hamburg
201-300	University of Helsinki
201-300	University of Illinois at Chicago
201-300	University of Kiel
201-300	University of Leeds
201-300	University of Leoben
201-300	University of Lisbon
201-300	University of Liverpool
201-300	University of Lorraine
201-300	University of Mons
201-300	University of Montreal
201-300	University of Naples Federico II
201-300	University of North Texas
201-300	University of Notre Dame
201-300	University of Padua
201-300	University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5)
201-300	University of Porto
201-300	University of Potsdam
201-300	University of Regensburg
201-300	University of South Australia
201-300	University of South Carolina - Columbia
201-300	University of Tehran
201-300	University of Tennessee - Knoxville
201-300	University of Trento
201-300	University of Trieste
201-300	University of Ulm
201-300	University of Utah
201-300	University of Vigo
201-300	University of Virginia
201-300	University of Wuerzburg
201-300	University of Zurich
201-300	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7
201-300	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
201-300	Washington University in St. Louis
201-300	Zhejiang Normal University