2025 Best Materials Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
262Materials Science Degrees Awarded
$72,216Avg Early-Career Salary
If you're seeking a degree in materials sciences, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #265 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Materials Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 262 degrees in materials sciences annually.
Your choice of materials sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Materials Sciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Materials Sciences Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.
Best Schools for Materials Sciences in the Middle Atlantic Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the materials science degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Materials Science
Every student who is interested in materials sciences has to look into Columbia University in the City of New York. Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #15 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were about 29 materials sciences students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Delaware if you wish to pursue a degree in materials sciences. UD is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Newark. This university ranks 1st out of 3 schools for overall quality in the state of Delaware.
There were approximately 13 materials sciences students who graduated with this degree at UD in the most recent year we have data available.
Rochester Institute of Technology is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in materials sciences. RIT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Rochester. This school ranks 13th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 31 materials sciences students who graduated with this degree at RIT in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Credit for the banner image above goes to Per Henning.
Your choice of materials sciences school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Materials Sciences School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
