Overview

Program Description

The microstructures of solids at various levels, especially the defects, profoundly influence the mechanical, electronic, chemical, and biological properties of solids. The phenomenological and mechanistic relationships between the microstructure and the macroscopic properties of solids are, in essence, what materials science is all about. This is best represented by the “materials science triangle”: synthesis-microstructure-properties.

The Engineering - Materials Science program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is concerned with studying the design, fabrication, and testing of engineering materials. Such materials must simultaneously fulfill dimensional properties, quality control, and economic requirements. Several manufacturing steps may be involved: primary fabrication, such as solidification or vapor deposition of homogeneous or composite materials; secondary fabrication, including shaping and microstructural control by operations such as mechanical working, machining, sintering, joining and heat treatment and testing, which measures the degree of reliability of a processed part, destructively or non-destructively.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Physics of Materials

Principles of Electronic Materials Processing

Materials Science of Thin Films

Deposition Technologies and Their Applications

Fracture of Structural Materials

Advanced Composite Materials

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 27 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-15 00:00:00
Starting 2027-03-29 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

36 alternative credits

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Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Beverly Hills, United States

Disciplines

Materials Science General Engineering & Technology View 29 other Masters in Materials Science in United States

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General requirements

The minimum requirements for admission to graduate study at UCLA are:

An international student whose post-secondary education is completed outside of the U.S. is expected to hold a degree representing completion of at least four years of study with above average/very good scholarship from a university or university-level institution.

A GPA of 3.0 in the last two years of undergraduate coursework

GRE test scores (can be waived for well qualified applicants–please e-mail to inquire)

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Tuition Fees

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28242 USD / year

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28242 USD / year

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13140 USD / year

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