MATSC-PHD - Materials Science and Engineering (PhD)

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is concerned with designing, making, and characterizing new materials that will have societal impact. Materials science and engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the relationships between structure and properties of materials and how to take advantage of them in applications. Our students and faculty do research down to the infinitesimally small to achieve breakthroughs of global significance, working at the atomic and molecular levels to engineer matter that will enable the materials, devices, and systems essential for cutting-edge solar energy production, energy storage, information technology, medicine, and more.

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) program is designed to give students a broad and deep understanding of materials science and engineering so that they will have long and fruitful careers as researchers or teachers at the university level.

Students who graduate from our program will be among the world’s leading experts in the areas of their dissertation research. They also will have the intellectual tools to move into new research areas as the field grows and develops.

The University’s basic requirements for the PhD degree are outlined in the Graduate Degrees section of the Bulletin. Department requirements are stated below. See the Materials Science and Engineering Department website for more information.

For MATSCI-PHD admissions information, please visit: https://mse.stanford.edu/academics-admissions/doctoral-program/phd-admissions