The main focus area for this major is General Materials Science. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Materials Sciences is a major offered under the physical sciences program of study at University of California - Santa Barbara. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the doctor’s degree program in materials science, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $11,442 | $26,544 |
Fees | $2,126 | $2,126 |
UCSB does not offer an online option for its materials science doctor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UCSB Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their doctor’s degree in materials science in 2019-2020, 35.0% of them were women. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 33.1%.
Around 15.0% of materials science doctor’s degree recipients at UCSB in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 12%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 2 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 14 |
International Students | 3 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Materials Sciences students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Materials Science | 20 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to materials sciences.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Chemistry | 18 |
Geological & Earth Sciences | 3 |
Physics | 20 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.