The development of solid state physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry and other disciplines, in-depth research on the structure and physical properties of matter, has promoted the research and understanding of the nature of materials. Therein, semiconductor material is one crucial part of materials sciences. PAM-XIAMEN compiles world university rankings for materials sciences.
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Top 50 World University Rankings by Subject: Materials Sciences (2020~2022)
| 2022 Ranking | 2021 Ranking | 2020 Ranking | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Stanford University | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Nanyang Technological University | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Harvard University | 4 | 5 | 7 |
| University of Cambridge | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 6 | 8 | 6 |
| National University of Singapore (NUS) | 7 | 5 | 13 |
| University of Oxford | 8 | 9 | 5 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 9 | 7 | 10 |
| EPFL | 10 | 12 | 7 |
| Tsinghua University | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Northwestern University | 12 | 11 | 12 |
| ETH Zurich | 13 | 15 | 14 |
| Imperial College London | 14 | 14 | 11 |
| Peking University | 15 | 13 | 16 |
| University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 16 | 21 | 25 |
| California Institute of Technology(Caltech) | 17 | 25 | 17 |
| Seoul National University | 18 | – | 21 |
| Delft University of Technology | 19 | 36 | 17 |
| KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology | 20 | 16 | 19 |
| The University of Tokyo | 21 | 29 | 19 |
| University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | 21 | 33 | 40 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 23 | 19 | 15 |
| Pennsylvania State University | 24 | 23 | 29 |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 25 | 20 | 22 |
| University of Texas at Austin | 25 | 31 | 39 |
| KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 27 | 38 | 27 |
| The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | 28 | 16 | 23 |
| The University of Manchester | 29 | 28 | 28 |
| Fudan University | 30 | 16 | 30 |
| RWTH Aachen University | 31 | 41 | 24 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 31 | 34 | 36 |
| Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) | 33 | 37 | 43 |
| KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 34 | 45 | 43 |
| Monash University | 35 | 34 | 46 |
| Technical University of Munich | 35 | 49 | 31 |
| Zhejiang University | 35 | 27 | 35 |
| University of Toronto | 38 | 39 | 48 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | 39 | 32 | 31 |
| The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | 39 | 39 | 42 |
| University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | 41 | – | – |
| University of Science and Technology of China | 41 | 24 | 40 |
| Purdue University | 43 | 44 | 50 |
| Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | 44 | – | 33 |
| Cornell University | 45 | 47 | 38 |
| Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | 46 | 29 | 26 |
| City University of Hong Kong | 47 | 25 | – |
| Kyoto University | 47 | 50 | 34 |
|
Technische Universität Dresden |
49 | – | – |
|
KU Leuven |
50 | – | 45 |
| National Taiwan University (NTU) | 50 | – | – |
| Rice University | 50 | 42 | – |
| Nanjing University | – | 42 | – |
| University of Pennsylvania | – | 46 | 37 |
| Korea University | – | 48 | – |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | – | 50 | – |
| Tohoku University | – | – | 46 |
| McGill University | – | – | 49 |
- Data from TopUniversities
Remarks:
“-“ stands for that the university was not on the top 50 list the year;
Rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, h-index, international research network, etc.
About Materials Sciences
Materials science is a science that studies the organizational structure, properties, production processes and performance of materials and their interrelationships, integrating physics, chemistry, and metallurgy. Materials science is an applied science that is inseparable from engineering technology.
Materials are substances that humans use to make machines, components, devices, and other products. Materials can be classified in a number of ways. According to physical and chemical properties, it is divided into metal materials, inorganic non-metallic materials, organic polymer materials and composite materials. According to the use, it is divided into electronic materials, aerospace materials, building materials, energy materials, biological materials, etc. In practical applications, it is often divided into structural materials and functional materials. Structural materials are based on mechanical properties and are used to manufacture force-based components. Structural materials also have requirements for physical properties or chemical properties, such as gloss, thermal conductivity, radiation resistance, oxidation resistance, corrosion resistance, etc., depending on the use of the material, the performance requirements are also different. Functional materials are mainly a class of materials made by utilizing the physical, chemical properties or biological phenomena of substances in different responses to external changes, such as semiconductor materials, superconducting materials, optoelectronic materials, magnetic materials, etc.
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