| 2024-2025 Best Materials Engineering Programs | |
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 2 | Stanford University |
| 2 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 4 | Northwestern University (McCormick) |
| 5 | University of California--Santa Barbara |
| 5 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Grainger) |
| 7 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 8 | California Institute of Technology |
| 8 | Cornell University |
| 8 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor |
| 11 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie) |
| 12 | Purdue University--Main Campus |
| 14 | Harvard University (Paulson) |
| 14 | Ohio State University |
| 16 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) |
| 16 | Texas A&M University--College Station |
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania |
| 16 | University of Wisconsin--Madison |
| 20 | University of Minnesota--Twin Cities |
| 20 | University of Texas--Austin (Cockrell) |
| 22 | North Carolina State University |
| 22 | University of California--Los Angeles (Samueli) |
| 22 | University of Florida (Wertheim) |
| 22 | University of Maryland--College Park (Clark) |
| 26 | Colorado School of Mines |
| 26 | Duke University (Pratt) |
| 26 | Rice University (Brown) |
| 29 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) |
| 29 | Drexel University |
| 29 | University of California--San Diego (Jacobs) |
| 29 | University of Chicago |
| 29 | University of Washington |
| 34 | Case Western Reserve University (Case) |
| 34 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| 34 | University of California--Davis |
| 34 | University of California--Irvine (Samueli) |
| 34 | University of Connecticut |
| 34 | Virginia Tech |
| 40 | Iowa State University |
| 40 | Lehigh University (Rossin) |
| 40 | Rutgers University--New Brunswick |
| 40 | University of Delaware |
| 40 | University of Massachusetts--Amherst |
| 40 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) |
| 40 | University of Tennessee--Knoxville (Tickle) |
| 47 | Arizona State University (Fulton) |
| 47 | Brown University |
| 47 | Stony Brook University--SUNY |
| 47 | University of Colorado--Boulder |
| 47 | University of Virginia |
| 52 | Clemson University |
| 52 | University of Arizona |
| 52 | University of Central Florida |
| 52 | University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill |
| 52 | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) |
| 57 | Boston University |
| 57 | Michigan State University |
| 57 | Missouri University of Science & Technology--Rolla |
| 57 | Northeastern University |
| 57 | Washington State University (Voiland) |
| 62 | Alfred University--New York State College of Ceramics (Inamori) |
| 62 | Dartmouth College (Thayer) |
| 62 | University of Utah |
| 62 | Washington University in St. Louis (McKelvey) |
| 66 | Michigan Technological University |
| 66 | University of Alabama |
| 66 | University of Illinois--Chicago |
| 66 | Vanderbilt University |
| 66 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 71 | University at Buffalo--SUNY |
| 71 | University of California--Riverside (Bourns) |
| 71 | University of Cincinnati |
| 71 | University of North Texas |
| 75 | Binghamton University--SUNY (Watson) |
| 75 | Boise State University |
| 75 | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| 75 | Oregon State University |
| 75 | Tufts University |
| 75 | University of Kentucky |
| 75 | University of Rochester (Hajim) |
| 82 | Auburn University (Ginn) |
| 82 | Colorado State University (Scott) |
| 82 | Florida A&M University - Florida State University |
| 82 | Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer) |
| 82 | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| 82 | The University of Texas at Dallas (Jonsson) |
| 82 | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 82 | University of Massachusetts--Lowell (Francis) |
| 82 | University of Nebraska--Lincoln |
| 91 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) |
| 91 | University of Dayton |
| 91 | University of Houston (Cullen) |
| 91 | University of New Hampshire |
| 91 | University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee |
| 96 | Clarkson University (Coulter) |
| 96 | Florida International University |
| 96 | Oklahoma State University |
| 96 | South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
| 96 | University of California--Merced |
| 96 | West Virginia University (Statler) |
| 102 | Air Force Institute of Technology |
| 102 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| 102 | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| 102 | Tulane University |
| 102 | University of Miami |
| 102 | University of Nevada--Reno |
| 102 | University of Vermont |
| 102 | Wayne State University |
| 102 | Wright State University |
| 111 | New Mexico State University |
| 111 | North Dakota State University |
| 111 | SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
| 111 | University of Nevada--Las Vegas (Hughes) |
| 115 | Montana State University |
| 115 | Portland State University (Maseeh) |
| 115 | University of Arkansas--Fayetteville |
| 118 | The Catholic University of America |
| 118 | University of Denver (Ritchie) |









