Graduate Education
Our Modern Approach
Materials science and engineering continue to change rapidly as a discipline, with recent advancements in experimental tools for probing the dynamics of material structure and properties, high-throughput multiscale computational methods, and materials informatics. At the same time, we become increasingly interdisciplinary and collaborative, allowing the community to seek and answer more innovative and complex solutions to our global challenges. Not only do these developments change how we do research, but they change how we approach graduate education.
NC State MSE continuously modernizes our graduate training paradigm, with the goal of providing a supportive environment, leading educators, and state-of-the-art resources to create outstanding scientists, engineers, and global leaders. While an innovative graduate curriculum and graduate research mentorship continue to underpin the graduate program, we also emphasize leadership skills, global engagement, and entrepreneurialism. Through programs such as the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship on the Science and Engineering of Atomic Structure, we take a leading role in changing the global paradigm for interdisciplinary graduate education.
Graduate Programs
Ph.D. Master of Science Master of Materials Science and Engineering Master of Nanoengineering- Professional Development and Leadership curriculum, including a Teaching and Communications Certificate
- Technology, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Graduate Certificate in collaboration with NCSU’s Poole College of Management
- Global outreach and engagement opportunities: SciBridge, International Research Experiences for Students
- Student organizations, including, MSE Graduate Student Association, Materials Research Society, National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
- The region’s most extensive Engineering Career Fair and departmental-hosted industry visitations for exploring job possibilities and finding your future employer.
Welcome to the intersection of technology and creativity. Before Silicon Valley, there was the Research Triangle Park (RTP) a region in central North Carolina anchored by three universities–NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke. RTP attracted IBM, SAS, Cisco, and more beginning in the early 1960s and that spirit of innovation has grown. Companies sited in RTP invest more than $296 million in R&D at the region’s universities each year – double the average R&D investment for innovation clusters elsewhere in the nation. Today RTP boasts more than 200 companies and over 50,000 people with expertise in fields such as microelectronics, telecommunications, biotechnology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and environmental sciences.