材料科学与工程（Materials Sciences and Engineering，缩写MSE）是一个多学科领域，涉及物质的性质及其在各个科学和工程领域的应用。它是研究材料的制备或加工工艺、材料的微观结构与材料宏观性能三者之间的相互关系的科学。涉及的理论包括固体物理学，材料化学，应用物理和化学，以及化学工程，机械工程，土木工程和电机工程。与电子工程结合，则衍生出电子材料，与机械结合则衍生出结构材料，与生物学结合则衍生出生物材料等等。随着近年来媒体将注意力大量集中在纳米科学和纳米技术上，材料科学在许多大学被推到了最前沿。它也是工程鉴定和破坏分析中的一个重要组成部分。
材料科学家（Materials Scientists）美国各州就业情况：
2015USNews美国大学研究生材料工程专业排名
| 开设学位 | BS、M.S.、Ph.D. |
| 典型职业及薪水 | 材料科学家：$86,790 |
| 签证敏感度 | 中等 |
| 高中课程准备 | 理科 |
| 所属专业领域 | 工科 |
| 相关排名 | 2015USNEWS材料工程排名 |
课程列表
| 工程力学 | Engineering Mechanics |
| 固体波与衍射 | Waves and Diffraction in Solids |
| 结晶固体的不完善 | Imperfections in Crystalline Solids |
| 透射电子显微镜 | Transmission Electron Microscopy |
| 微观力学 | Micromechanics |
| 应力分析 | Stress Analysis |
| 工程材料断裂 | Fracture and Fatigue of Engineering Materials |
| 复合材料力学 | Mechanics of Composites |
| 统计学 | Statistics |
| 物理学 | Physics |
| 工程制图 | Engineering Graphics |
| 微积分 | Calculus |
就业状况
从事职业：化学工程师、化学家、纺织制造商材料科学家（Materials Scientists）美国各州就业情况：
| 州名 | 就业人数 | 薪水/h | 薪水/年 |
| 加州 | 1240 | $45.20 | $94,010 |
| 德克萨斯州 | 630 | $46.93 | $97,610 |
| 俄亥俄州 | 610 | $45.40 | $94,420 |
| 麻省 | 510 | $46.30 | $96,300 |
| 华盛顿 | 450 | $39.94 | $83,080 |
| 特拉华州 | 110 | $39.75 | $82,670 |
| 新墨西哥州 | 190 | $55.50 | $115,430 |
| 犹他州 | 160 | $45.73 | $95,110 |
| 新泽西州 | 270 | $48.83 | $101.570 |
| 俄勒冈州 | 70 | $47.57 | $98,940 |
2015USNews美国大学研究生材料工程专业排名
| 排名 | 院校 | 学费 | 工程专业研究生注册总人数 |
| #1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA |
$43,210 per year (full-time) | 3,174 |
| #2 | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL |
$45,120 per year (full-time) | 1,799 |
| #2 | University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA |
$12,991 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,093 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 765 |
| #2 | University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL |
$16,754 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,246 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,154 |
| #5 | Stanford University Stanford, CA |
$45,480 per year (full-time) | 3,517 |
| #6 | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA |
$39,990 per year (full-time) | 569 |
| #6 | Cornell University Ithaca, NY |
$29,530 per year (full-time) | 1,812 |
| #6 | University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,936 |
| #9 | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA |
$11,324 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,330 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 4,576 |
| #10 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI |
$22,322 per year (in-state, full-time); $41,998 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,178 |
| #11 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA |
$40,000 per year (full-time) | 3,157 |
| #11 | Pennsylvania State University-University Park University Park, PA |
$19,304 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,416 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,719 |
| #11 | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
$28,768 per year (full-time) | 1,609 |
| #14 | Harvard University Cambridge, MA |
$38,888 per year (full-time) | 449 |
| #15 | University of Florida Gainesville, FL |
$12,642 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,035 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,739 |
| #16 | University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI |
$11,858 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,184 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,940 |
| #17 | Purdue University-West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN |
$10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,333 |
| #18 | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD |
$45,470 per year (full-time) | 3,296 |
| #18 | Ohio State University Columbus, OH |
$11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,592 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,680 |
| #18 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY |
$45,100 per year (full-time) | 783 |
| #21 | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC |
$7,173 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,511 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,929 |
| #22 | Lehigh University (Rossin) Bethlehem, PA |
$1,300 per credit (full-time) | 826 |
| #22 | University of California-Davis Davis, CA |
$13,109 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,211 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,130 |
| #22 | University of California-Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA |
$12,562 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,664 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,854 |
| #22 | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN |
$14,708 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,990 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,928 |
| #22 | University of Texas-Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX |
$9,564 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,506 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,397 |
| #22 | University of Washington Seattle, WA |
$14,904 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,594 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,139 |
| #22 | Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA |
$11,184 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,146 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,193 |
| #29 | Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH |
$38,588 per year (full-time) | 633 |
| #29 | Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO |
$14,400 per year (in-state, full-time); $30,330 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,269 |
| #29 | Iowa State University Ames, IA |
$9,046 per year (in-state, full-time); $21,304 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,161 |
| #29 | Rice University (Brown) Houston, TX |
$38,260 per year (full-time) | 760 |
| #29 | University of Maryland-College Park (Clark) College Park, MD |
$11,460 per year (in-state, full-time); $24,720 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,150 |
| #29 | University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
$14,358 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,682 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 655 |
| #35 | Brown University Providence, RI |
$44,608 per year (full-time) | 321 |
| #35 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA |
$29,295 per year (full-time) | 1,146 |
| #35 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick Piscataway, NJ |
$15,552 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,704 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,162 |
| #35 | University of California-San Diego (Jacobs) La Jolla, CA |
$11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,715 |
| #39 | Arizona State University (Fulton) Tempe, AZ |
$10,300 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,286 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,136 |
| #39 | Columbia University (Fu Foundation) New York, NY |
$39,360 per year (full-time) | 2,827 |
| #39 | University of California-Irvine (Samueli) Irvine, CA |
$13,812 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,914 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,325 |
| #39 | University of Delaware Newark, DE |
$1,578 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,578 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 887 |
| #39 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA |
$2,640 per year (in-state, full-time); $9,937 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 882 |
| #39 | University of Southern California (Viterbi) Los Angeles, CA |
$29,448 per year (full-time) | 4,857 |
| #45 | Alfred University-New York State College of Ceramics (Inamori) Alfred, NY |
$22,520 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,520 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 61 |
| #45 | Dartmouth College (Thayer) Hanover, NH |
$45,445 per year (full-time) | 291 |
| #45 | University of Arizona Tucson, AZ |
$10,508 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,380 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,041 |
| #45 | Washington State University Pullman, WA |
$11,746 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,178 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 662 |
| #49 | Clemson University Clemson, SC |
$9,392 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,536 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,427 |
| #49 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT |
$11,456 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,740 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 873 |
| #51 | Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI |
$14,202 per year (in-state, full-time); $14,202 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 907 |
| #51 | Stony Brook University-SUNY Stony Brook, NY |
$9,870 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,393 |
| #51 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY |
$1,395 per credit (full-time) | 605 |
| #51 | University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN |
$10,944 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,432 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 980 |
| #51 | University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT |
$6,242 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,772 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,180 |
| #56 | Boston University Boston, MA |
$43,970 per year (full-time) | 907 |
| #56 | University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL |
$9,450 per year (in-state, full-time); $23,950 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 339 |
| #56 | University of Illinois-Chicago Chicago, IL |
$13,966 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,964 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,117 |
| #56 | University of Pittsburgh (Swanson) Pittsburgh, PA |
$22,916 per year (in-state, full-time); $37,528 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,067 |
| #60 | Binghamton University-SUNY (Watson) Binghamton, NY |
$11,474 per year (in-state, full-time); $19,954 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 823 |
| #61 | Illinois Institute of Technology (Armour) Chicago, IL |
$1,204 per credit (full-time) | 1,587 |
| #61 | Missouri University of Science & Technology Rolla, MO |
$6,661 per year (in-state, full-time); $17,199 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,196 |
| #61 | New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Socorro, NM |
$5,270 per year (in-state, full-time); $16,883 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 191 |
| #61 | Stevens Institute of Technology (Schaefer) Hoboken, NJ |
$30,200 per year (full-time) | 1,861 |
| #61 | University of Alabama-Birmingham Birmingham, AL |
$6,390 per year (in-state, full-time); $15,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 451 |
| #61 | University of Central Florida Orlando, FL |
$357 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,182 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,264 |
| #61 | University of North Texas Denton, TX |
$228 per credit (in-state, full-time); $582 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 470 |
| #61 | Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN |
$1,747 per credit (full-time) | 495 |