In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - Materials Science 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

 

2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0	100.0	93.5	98.3	98.0
2	2	Stanford University	United States	91.9	98.3	95.9	97.2	94.9
3	6=	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	94.9	91.5	89.1	89.9	91.9
4	3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	92.8	89.7	92.5	90.4	91.8
5	4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.9	96.4	87.9	86.8	91.7
6	8	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	84.1	83.9	92.5	100.0	90.2
7	5	Northwestern University	United States	90.9	68.1	93.6	93.2	89.9
8	6=	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	83.7	92.5	92.3	95.3	89.6
9	9	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	90.3	94.5	88.1	85.9	89.1
10	11	Tsinghua University	China	87.8	88.2	82.3	93.0	87.8
11=	10	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	85.9	76.2	88.8	92.3	87.3
11=	12	Harvard University	United States	77.7	99.2	94.6	90.4	87.3
13	17	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	85.8	93.5	88.1	86.2	87.2
14	13	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	87.6	72.8	88.8	90.2	87.1
15	15	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	87.4	87.7	86.1	85.3	86.6
16	18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	88.6	80.1	89.0	83.2	86.5
17	14	The University of Tokyo	Japan	88.1	90.4	81.0	85.9	86.0
18	19	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	79.7	88.9	87.1	90.4	85.1
19	21=	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	79.8	88.9	85.2	86.8	83.8
20	16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	73.3	90.1	93.9	87.1	83.6
21	29	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	92.0	80.4	78.3	75.8	83.4
22	31=	Tohoku University	Japan	88.2	83.6	77.0	81.5	83.3
23	30	Peking University	China	73.5	88.1	88.5	91.6	83.2
24	21=	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	88.4	85.1	77.8	78.2	82.9
25	24=	Kyoto University	Japan	81.7	90.3	79.8	81.5	82.0
26	37	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	84.1	76.3	80.7	80.1	81.5
27=	24=	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	81.5	74.2	87.8	77.8	81.4
27=	21=	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	82.2	75.5	84.0	79.7	81.4
29	27	University of Michigan	United States	77.1	82.6	85.3	83.2	81.2
30	39	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	82.1	76.4	80.7	81.5	81.0
31	35	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	76.7	82.9	81.0	86.8	80.9
32	31=	Cornell University	United States	75.3	82.8	88.3	81.2	80.8
33	26	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	75.2	83.4	85.9	83.2	80.7
34=	20	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	76.5	51.3	94.0	84.4	80.3
34=	31=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	67.8	67.2	93.4	92.3	80.3
36	28	Pennsylvania State University	United States	78.6	63.2	84.4	83.5	79.7
37	44	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	75.0	76.8	87.1	80.5	79.6
38	36	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	69.3	74.6	87.7	87.6	79.0
39	38	University of Toronto	Canada	72.1	75.3	86.3	82.9	78.7
40=	51-100	Fudan University	China	59.2	88.1	92.0	92.3	78.6
40=	45	KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie	Germany	73.8	77.6	81.9	83.2	78.6
42	40	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	77.6	71.2	83.3	77.8	78.4
43	47=	Purdue University	United States	73.4	75.0	83.0	82.9	78.3
44	46	Osaka University	Japan	77.0	82.3	76.2	80.5	78.2
45	34	University of Pennsylvania	United States	67.5	70.1	92.3	82.9	77.8
46	47=	McGill University	Canada	75.6	81.6	80.5	74.9	77.3
47	51-100	Indian Institute of Science Bangalore	India	67.3	83.3	82.8	84.7	77.1
48	49	Princeton University	United States	68.1	81.2	87.7	78.2	76.8
49	41=	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	65.9	81.6	83.9	84.7	76.7
50	51-100	Rice University	United States	59.3	60.5	100.0	87.1	76.5