In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings®, - Materials Science 2015, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.
Rank 2015
Rank 2014
Institution
Country
Academic
Employer
Citations
Score
1
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
100
92.1
93.4
99.1
97.3
2
2=
Stanford University
United States
91.4
94.1
95.1
98.5
94.4
3
5
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
93.1
88
92.8
92
92.2
4
2=
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
95.6
100
88.6
86.4
92
5
6=
Northwestern University
United States
92.6
72.8
91.7
94.9
91
6
4
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
95.1
77.1
88.9
90.9
90.7
6
6=
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
87.1
90.2
91.3
96.2
90.7
8
8
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore
83.8
80.2
89.1
100
88.8
9
9
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
90.2
98.4
84.8
80.2
87.2
10
15
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
88.5
60.4
88.2
94.2
87
11
10
Tsinghua University
China
88.9
85.2
78.9
91.7
86.7
12
12
Harvard University
United States
77
99.5
92.7
90.5
86.6
13
27
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
88.8
65.7
87.8
87.7
86
14
17=
The University of Tokyo
Japan
88.6
89.4
78.2
87.7
85.9
15
13
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Switzerland
87.5
80.1
85.9
85.1
85.8
16
21=
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States
77.4
85.2
96
86.9
85.2
17
23=
Ecole Polytechnique Fé,dé,rale de Lausanne
Switzerland
88.9
73.2
85.7
82.8
85
18
23=
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States
89.4
61
86.8
81.8
84
19
16
KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science &, Technology