簡介：Courses in this category cover three distinct areas: materials science, mining and engineering, textiles technology and printing, and marine technology. The various subjects are highly specialised and attract relatively few applicants, but have generally held their own with the onset of higher fees. The demand for places in materials technology itself, for example, had dropped less than 1 per cent in March 2012, but there were still fewer than 800 applications. The leading universities demand chemistry and sometimes also physics, maths or design technology at A level or its equivalent. Cambridge has retained the leadership it won from Oxford four years ago, with Leeds moving up to third place from sixth last year. Cambridge has the best grades from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, when only 5 per cent of the university’s research was considered less than world-leading or internationally excellent. It also has much the highest entry standards and shares the top score for student satisfaction with Sheffield, where, for the second year in a row, 95 per cent of graduates found graduate-level work or a place on a more advanced course within six months of leaving. Only Exeter, in tenth place, came within five percentage points of Sheffield’s employment record. Outside the top six, entry scores are tightly bunched: no university has an average of 400 points or less than 230. De Montfort is the leading post-1992 university, on the verge of the top ten. Swansea is the only university in the table from outside England. Employment prospects are about average for all subjects: more than half of those completing a degree go straight into graduate-level work, and the unemployment rate is above the norm for all subjects. Average starting salaries for those who find graduate jobs are also firmly in mid-table, having gone up ￡300 since the last Guide appeared.以下是2013年times英國大學排名材料工程專業排名。