# Top material science departments in the world (As of Jan 2020 according to [[Rachel Zucker]]) 1. [[MIT]] 2. [[UC Berkeley]] but may be getting stale 3. [[Stanford]] 4. [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign UIUC]] (unintuitive) 5. [[University of Michigan]](++++) 6. [[Max Planck Institute]] (there are 60 of them) (Stuttgart was the place in the 80’s/90’s) 7. [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]] [[Lawrence Livermore National Lab]] 8. [[Imperial College London]] - computational material science 9. [[University of Milan]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Top+material+science+departments+in+the+world) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Top+material+science+departments+in+the+world)