Best Universities for Polymer science and Plastics engineering in the World

Below is a list of best universities in the World ranked based on their research performance in Polymer science and Plastics engineering. A graph of 1.8B citations received by 83.2M academic papers made by 994 universities in the World was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. University of Akron

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
85%
Receiving Aid
96%
Average Aid
$7,341
Enrollment
14,498

2. Kyoto University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#1 in Asia
#1 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
11%
Enrollment
22,455
Male:Female
76:24
Founded
1897

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
4%
Net Price
$30,958
Receiving Aid
100%
Average Aid
$32,562

4. University of Massachusetts - Amherst

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
66%
Average SAT
1355
Average ACT
31
Receiving Aid
88%

5. Tokyo Institute of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#2 in Asia
#2 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
10%
Enrollment
10,357
Founded
1881

6. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
73%
Average SAT
1400
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
82%

7. University of California - Santa Barbara

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
29%
Receiving Aid
58%
Average Aid
$18,107
Enrollment
26,124

8. University of Tokyo

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#3 in Asia
#3 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
35%
Enrollment
28,133
Founded
1877

9. Eindhoven University of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#1 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
50%
Founded
1956

10. Zhejiang University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#4 in Asia
#1 in China
Enrollment
60,739
Founded
1897

11. Carnegie Mellon University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
14%
Average SAT
1520
Average ACT
34
Net Price
$37,450

12. Pennsylvania State University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
55%
Receiving Aid
73%
Average Aid
$8,719
Enrollment
40,363

13. University of Texas at Austin

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
29%
Average SAT
1365
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
71%

14. Case Western Reserve University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
30%
Average SAT
1470
Average ACT
34
Net Price
$38,166

15. Cornell University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
9%
Average SAT
1505
Average ACT
34
Net Price
$24,262

16. North Carolina State University at Raleigh

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
47%
Average SAT
1355
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
74%

17. South China University of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#5 in Asia
#2 in China
Enrollment
42,720
Founded
1952

18. University of Manchester

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#2 in Europe
Founded
1824

19. National University of Singapore

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#6 in Asia
#1 in Singapore
Enrollment
30,098
Founded
1905

20. Sichuan University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#7 in Asia
#3 in China
Enrollment
44,200
Founded
1896

21. University of Cambridge

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#3 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
21%
Founded
1209

22. Georgia Institute of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
16%
Average SAT
1405
Average ACT
32
Receiving Aid
72%

23. University of Leeds

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#4 in Europe
Founded
1904

24. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
56%
Average SAT
1310
Average ACT
29
Receiving Aid
72%

25. University of Toronto

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#1 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
43%
Enrollment
95,055
Founded
1827

26. University of Freiburg

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#5 in Europe
#1 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
33%
Enrollment
24,391
Founded
1457

27. Shanghai Jiao Tong University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#8 in Asia
#4 in China
Enrollment
47,000
Founded
1896

28. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#6 in Europe
#2 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
35%
Enrollment
33,132
Founded
1946

29. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#7 in Europe
#1 in Sweden
Acceptance Rate
41%
Enrollment
14,278
Founded
1827

30. Imperial College London

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#8 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
15%
Enrollment
17,565
Founded
1907

31. University of Science and Technology of China

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#9 in Asia
#5 in China
Acceptance Rate
10%
Founded
1958

32. University of Bayreuth

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#9 in Europe
#3 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
35%
Enrollment
13,300
Founded
1972

33. Northwestern University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
7%
Average SAT
1520
Average ACT
35
Net Price
$29,999

34. University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
60%
Average SAT
1415
Average ACT
32
Receiving Aid
85%

35. Harvard University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
4%
Average SAT
1530
Average ACT
35
Net Price
$13,910

36. Michigan State University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
83%
Average SAT
1210
Average ACT
26
Receiving Aid
72%

37. University of Birmingham

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#10 in Europe
Founded
1900

38. Istanbul Technical University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#10 in Asia
#1 in Turkey
Enrollment
15,358
Founded
1944

39. Nagoya University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#11 in Asia
#4 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
41%
Enrollment
16,376
Founded
1939

40. Beijing University of Chemical Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#12 in Asia
#6 in China
Acceptance Rate
30%
Founded
1958

41. McGill University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#2 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
47%
Enrollment
40,036
Founded
1821

42. University of Wisconsin - Madison

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
60%
Average SAT
1410
Average ACT
29
Receiving Aid
64%

43. University of California - Los Angeles

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
11%
Receiving Aid
56%
Average Aid
$17,592
Enrollment
46,116

44. Osaka University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#13 in Asia
#5 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
41%
Enrollment
23,044
Male:Female
68:32
Founded
1931

45. University of Bristol

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#11 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
68%
Enrollment
27,513
Founded
1909

46. University of Florida

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
30%
Average SAT
1385
Average ACT
31
Receiving Aid
94%

47. Ghent University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#12 in Europe
#1 in Belgium
Enrollment
41,669
Founded
1817

48. University of California - Berkeley

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
14%
Receiving Aid
61%
Average Aid
$21,406
Enrollment
45,036

49. Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#14 in Asia
#1 in India
Acceptance Rate
13%
Founded
1951

50. Purdue University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
69%
Average SAT
1310
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
73%

51. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#13 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
27%
Enrollment
23,420

52. University of Liege

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#14 in Europe
#2 in Belgium
Enrollment
25,421
Founded
1817

53. Donghua University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#15 in Asia
#7 in China
Acceptance Rate
30%
Enrollment
30,000
Founded
1951

54. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
20%
Receiving Aid
70%
Average Aid
$16,326
Enrollment
50,278

55. Fudan University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#16 in Asia
#8 in China
Acceptance Rate
32%
Enrollment
33,000
Founded
1905

56. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#15 in Europe
#4 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
60%
Enrollment
18,219
Founded
1558

57. University of Washington - Seattle

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
53%
Receiving Aid
54%
Average Aid
$15,895
Enrollment
52,434

58. Tsinghua University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#17 in Asia
#9 in China
Enrollment
48,739
Founded
1911

59. Catholic University of Leuven

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#16 in Europe
#3 in Belgium
Enrollment
62,693
Founded
1425

60. University of Sheffield

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#17 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
14%
Founded
1905

61. University of the Basque Country

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#18 in Europe
#1 in Spain
Acceptance Rate
60%
Enrollment
63,000

62. Technical University of Munich

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#19 in Europe
#5 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
8%
Enrollment
44,000
Male:Female
63:37
Founded
1868

63. University of Waterloo

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#3 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
53%
Enrollment
35,900
Founded
1957

64. University of Southern Mississippi

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
96%
Average ACT
23
Receiving Aid
93%
Average Aid
$9,072

65. Kyushu University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#18 in Asia
#6 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
42%
Enrollment
18,560
Founded
1911

66. University of Twente

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#20 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
51%
Founded
1961

67. University of British Columbia

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#4 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
53%
Enrollment
59,659
Founded
1908

68. University of Tennessee - Knoxville

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
75%
Average SAT
1255
Average ACT
28
Receiving Aid
92%

69. University of New South Wales

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#1 in Oceania
#1 in Australia
Acceptance Rate
60%
Founded
1949

70. Tianjin University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#19 in Asia
#10 in China
Enrollment
35,370
Founded
1895

71. University of Groningen

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#21 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
8%
Enrollment
34,000
Founded
1614

72. Moscow State University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#22 in Europe
#1 in Russia
Acceptance Rate
12%
Founded
1755

73. Hokkaido University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#20 in Asia
#7 in Japan
Acceptance Rate
36%
Enrollment
17,541
Founded
1918

74. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#23 in Europe
#6 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
26%
Enrollment
23,321
Founded
2009

75. University of Reading

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#24 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
86%
Founded
1892

76. Lehigh University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
46%
Average SAT
1408
Average ACT
32
Net Price
$31,539

77. Technical University of Berlin

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#25 in Europe
#7 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
52%
Enrollment
35,149
Founded
1946

78. Stanford University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
4%
Average SAT
1520
Average ACT
35
Net Price
$14,402

79. McMaster University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#5 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
59%
Enrollment
30,117
Founded
1887

80. Seoul National University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#21 in Asia
Acceptance Rate
17%
Enrollment
28,378
Founded
1946

81. National Graduate School of Chemistry, Montpellier

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#26 in Europe
#1 in France
Enrollment
1,000
Founded
1957

82. University of Oxford

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#27 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
18%
Founded
1096

83. University of Connecticut

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
56%
Average SAT
1330
Average ACT
30
Receiving Aid
82%

84. KAIST

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#22 in Asia
Enrollment
10,249
Founded
1971

85. University of Pennsylvania

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
6%
Average SAT
1525
Average ACT
34
Net Price
$14,578

86. Lund University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#28 in Europe
#2 in Sweden
Acceptance Rate
34%
Enrollment
40,000
Founded
1666

87. Iowa State University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
91%
Average SAT
1207
Average ACT
25
Receiving Aid
93%

88. RWTH Aachen University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#29 in Europe
#8 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
10%
Enrollment
44,517
Founded
1870

89. Texas A&M University - College Station

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
64%
Average SAT
1260
Average ACT
28
Receiving Aid
78%

90. University of Erlangen Nuremberg

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#30 in Europe
#9 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
46%
Enrollment
38,878
Founded
1743

91. Wuhan University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#23 in Asia
#11 in China
Enrollment
60,000
Founded
1893

92. University of Marburg

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#31 in Europe
#10 in Germany
Acceptance Rate
10%
Enrollment
24,758
Founded
1527

93. University of Hamburg

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#32 in Europe
#11 in Germany
Enrollment
43,957
Founded
1919

94. University of Pisa

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#33 in Europe
#1 in Italy
Acceptance Rate
39%
Enrollment
49,108
Founded
1343

95. East China University of Science and Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#24 in Asia
#12 in China
Acceptance Rate
14%
Enrollment
26,000
Founded
1952

96. University of Nottingham

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#34 in Europe
Acceptance Rate
11%
Founded
1948

97. University of Delaware

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
72%
Average SAT
1248
Average ACT
29
Receiving Aid
90%

98. Queen's University

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

#6 in Canada
Acceptance Rate
42%
Enrollment
30,386
Founded
1841

99. California Institute of Technology

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
4%
Net Price
$30,162
Receiving Aid
67%
Average Aid
$47,556

100. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

For Polymer science and Plastics engineering

Acceptance Rate
53%
Average SAT
1440
Average ACT
33
Net Price
$40,070