2010年最新材料工程科系的美國大學前十大排名與2008年的排名有頗大的差異，例如Ohio State, Purdue, U of Wisconsin在2010年已不在前十大排名內，下是兩者的比較:

2008年

1University of California, Berkeley

2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

4Penn State University, University Park

5University of Florida

6Ohio State University, Columbus

6Purdue University, West Lafayette

8University of Wisconsin, Madison

2010 年

1MIT, Cambridge MA

2University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

3Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

4.UC, Santa Barbara, CA

5.Stanford University, CA

5.UC, Berkeley, CA

7U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

8Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

8Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

8Penn State University, University Park

8University of Florida