World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Materials Science & Engineering

2026 edition, Materials Science & Engineering. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Tsinghua University 1st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
2 Northwestern University 2nd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 3rd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
5 Harvard University 5th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
6 University of California, Berkeley 6th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
7 Stanford University 7th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
8 Zhejiang University 8th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
9 University of California, Los Angeles 9th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
10 Georgia Institute of Technology 10th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
11 National University of Singapore 11th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
12 Xi'an Jiaotong University 12th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
13 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 13th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
14 Peking University 14th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
15 Pennsylvania State University 15th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
16 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 16th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
17 Fudan University 17th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
18 University of Cambridge 18th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
19 University of California, San Diego 19th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
20 Soochow University 20th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
21 Nanyang Technological University 21st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
22 Northwestern Polytechnical University 22nd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
23 University of Science and Technology of China 23rd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
24 Harbin Institute of Technology 24th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
25 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 25th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
26 Sichuan University 26th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
27 University of Texas at Austin 27th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
28 University of Science and Technology Beijing 28th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
29 Zhengzhou University 29th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
30 South China University of Technology 30th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
31 Jilin University 31st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
32 Drexel University 32nd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
33 Hong Kong Polytechnic University 33rd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
34 City University of Hong Kong 34th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
35 Wuhan University 35th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
36 Central South University 36th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
37 Tianjin University 37th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
38 Seoul National University 38th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
39 Beijing Institute of Technology 39th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
40 Imperial College London 40th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
41 Wuhan University of Technology 41st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
42 California Institute of Technology 42nd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
43 Nanjing University 43rd in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
44 Tongji University 44th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
45 Beihang University 45th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
46 Sungkyunkwan University 46th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
47 University of New South Wales 47th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
48 Southern University of Science and Technology 48th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
49 University of California, Santa Barbara 49th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
50 Hunan University 50th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Princeton University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Southeast University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 University of Oxford 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Yonsei University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 University of Sydney 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 University of Toronto 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Cornell University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 KAIST 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Sun Yat-sen University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Chinese University of Hong Kong 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Chongqing University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Xiamen University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Nankai University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 University of Southern California 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Institute of Science Tokyo 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Rice University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Beijing University of Chemical Technology 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Shandong University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Shenzhen University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 Hanyang University 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=51 University of Waterloo 51st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 ETH Zurich 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Korea University 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 RMIT University 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Tohoku University 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University College London 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Hong Kong 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Manchester 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Washington 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Queensland 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Yale University 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Dalian University of Technology 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Tokyo 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Texas A&M University 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Connecticut 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 University of Maryland, College Park 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Shanghai University 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Guangdong University of Technology 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=76 Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology 76th in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Deakin University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Jiangnan University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Johns Hopkins University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Alberta 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Chicago 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Technology Sydney 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Columbia University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Monash University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Surrey 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Delft University of Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Oregon State University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Osaka University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Politecnico di Milano 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Purdue University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Technical University of Munich 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Wisconsin-Madison 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Ghent University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Nanjing Forestry University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Westlake University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Bristol 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 East China University of Science and Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Queensland University of Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Nanjing Tech University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Guangxi University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Macau 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Adelaide University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 University of Houston 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Eindhoven University of Technology 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Anhui University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Jinan University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=101 Fuzhou University 101st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Colorado Boulder 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Yangzhou University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Aarhus University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 China University of Geosciences 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Carnegie Mellon University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of British Columbia 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Kyoto University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of California, Davis 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Pittsburgh 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Jiangsu University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Glasgow 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Wollongong 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Washington State University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 KU Leuven 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Nottingham 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Beijing University of Technology 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Southwest Jiaotong University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Birmingham 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of Southampton 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Southern Medical University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Virginia Tech 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Politecnico di Torino 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of California, Irvine 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Yanshan University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Loughborough University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Uppsala University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 RWTH Aachen University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Hainan University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Ningbo University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Hefei University of Technology 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Lanzhou University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 University of North Texas 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Wenzhou Medical University 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=151 Zhejiang University of Technology 151st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Griffith University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Hohai University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Leiden University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 McGill University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Ocean University of China 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Swinburne University of Technology 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Pennsylvania 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Sao Paulo 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Harbin Engineering University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Sorbonne University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Xidian University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Australian National University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Duke University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Kyung Hee University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Groningen 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Curtin University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 King Saud University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Technical University of Denmark 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Beijing Normal University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Florida 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Melbourne 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Warwick 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Heidelberg University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 PSL University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Massachusetts Amherst 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Arizona State University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Trinity College Dublin 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Auckland 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Case Western Reserve University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Newcastle University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Nanchang University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Kunming University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Jiangsu University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Southwest University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 East China Normal University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 The University of Texas at Dallas 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Macau University of Science and Technology 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Université Grenoble Alpes 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 National Taiwan University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Chang'an University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Iowa State University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Guangzhou University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Tiangong University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 China University of Petroleum, East China 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Aalto University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Taiyuan University of Technology 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 University of Illinois Chicago 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Chalmers University of Technology 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Tufts University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Chengdu University 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=201 Universidade do Porto 201st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Indiana University Bloomington 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Sheffield 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Beijing Jiaotong University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 China University of Mining and Technology 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Khalifa University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Southern Queensland 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of St Andrews 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Washington University in St. Louis 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Arizona 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Michigan State University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Utrecht University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 National University of Defense Technology 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 China University of Geosciences (Beijing) 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Sejong University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Lund University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Queen Mary University of London 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Western University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Sapienza University of Rome 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Aalborg University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Northeast Forestry University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Bath 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Victoria 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 North China Electric Power University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 McMaster University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 Concordia University 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Zagreb 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 University of Notre Dame 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=301 North University of China 301st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Edith Cowan University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Edinburgh 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Exeter 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 South China Agricultural University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Brown University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Renmin University of China 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Montpellier 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Montreal 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Western Australia 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Leeds 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Macquarie University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Université Paris Cité 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Beijing Forestry University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Tianjin University of Science and Technology 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Tel Aviv University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Helsinki 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Stockholm University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Liverpool 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 China University of Petroleum, Beijing 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 Huaqiao University 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering
=401 University of Freiburg 401st in the world for Materials Science & Engineering