Rankings
MatSE at Illinois is a global leader for material science and engineering education. Unrivaled in resources, we are committed to providing an elite education to every student at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
A standard of excellence
For almost two decades, MatSE at Illinois has consistently ranked among the top materials programs in the nation. In 2022, U.S. News and World Report ranked MatSE at Illinois' undergraduate program No. 2 and graduate program No. 6 in the nation.
#2
ranked undergraduate program
U.S. News and World Report
#6
ranked graduate program
U.S. News and World Report
11,000
square feet of state-of-the-art laboratories
2020-21 MatSE graduate success
- 71% continuing higher education
- 27% employed
- 2% other
Average salary and sample employers
Average full-time salary
- $71,700
Sample employers
- 3M
- Capital One
- Caterpillar
- Epic Systems
- Keyence Corporation
- Korea Polymer Testing & Research Institute
- KPMG
- Macron Technology
- Natron Energy
- Nielson
- Panasonic Energy of North America
- Sandia National Laboratories
- The Clorox Company
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Northwestern University
- California Polytechnic State University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Purdue University
- Stanford University
- Texas A&M University
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Delaware
- University of Florida
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- University of Washington
- University of Washington-Seattle
- 78% of students reported having an internship or co-op during their degree program
MatSE by the numbers
6th undergraduate engineering program
2021 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News and World Report
10th graduate engineering program
2021 America's Best Graduate Schools issue of U.S. News and World Report
#11 worldwide
2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences
600+ students
More than 600 undergraduate and graduate students represent our department