2025 Best General Materials Science Doctor's Degree Schools
5Colleges in the United States
198Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in general materials science is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #129 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Materials Science Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 198 doctor's degrees in general materials science to qualified students.
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Choosing a Great General Materials Science School for Your Doctor's Degree
The general materials science doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general materials science program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general materials science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general materials science students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general materials science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general materials science students working on their doctor's degree.
The general materials science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Materials Science Doctor's Degree Schools.
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The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).