2025 Best General Materials Science Doctor's Degree Schools in California
2Colleges in California
67Doctor'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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for general materials science students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 67 doctor's degrees in general materials science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best General Materials Science Doctor's Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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General Materials Science Related Rankings by Major
General Materials Science is one of 2 different types of Materials Sciences programs to choose from.
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Notes and References
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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
