The interdisciplinary field of materials science is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids. A major branch of material science is metallurgy, which studies metals and alloys and includes technologies like extraction, casting, forging etc.
Depending on the country, undergraduate courses in this field are mostly three or four years long, with a further two years for post graduation.

Top Colleges 
Rank College/University Website Country
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) www.mit.edu/ United States
2 Stanford University https://www.stanford.edu/ United States
3 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) https://www.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx Singapore
4 University of Cambridge https://www.cam.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
5 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) https://www.berkeley.edu/ United States
6 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne https://www.epfl.ch/ Switzerland
7 Harvard University https://www.harvard.edu/ United States
8 University of Oxford www.ox.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
9 Imperial College London http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ United Kingdom
10 Northwestern University https://www.northwestern.edu/ United States

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