Materials Science & Engineering at AUTh brings together three of Greece's strongest Schools in a single interdisciplinary, English-taught programme — designed to develop advanced scientific knowledge, engineering capacity and research-ready expertise.
Excellence in research & innovation
The Department of Chemistry — which leads this programme alongside Physics and Mechanical Engineering — was ranked #1 in Greece in 2025. You will be taught by Greece's finest chemistry faculty.
Materials Science & Engineering is inherently interdisciplinary — it cannot be taught from within a single department. Understanding how a material behaves requires Chemistry to know what it is made of, Physics to understand its properties, and engineering to know how to process, shape and apply it.
This program brings together three of AUTh's strongest departments — Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanical Engineering — each contributing its core expertise to a unified curriculum. You will not study three separate subjects. You will study one field, seen through three complementary lenses.
The result is graduates who understand materials at a depth that specialists from a single discipline cannot match — and who are equipped to work across the full chain from discovery to application.
The program is structured to take you from the fundamental principles of materials science in the early years, through advanced specialisation and laboratory work in the middle years, to original research in the final year. Every semester builds on the last.
Graduates of this program are equipped to work across a wide range of industries, research environments and institutional settings — in Europe and internationally. The depth of the interdisciplinary training opens doors that single-discipline degrees do not.
The programme is designed as a complete five-year route from scientific foundations to advanced materials engineering, research practice and applied innovation. Instead of separating undergraduate and postgraduate study into two disconnected cycles, AUTh offers one coherent 300 ECTS pathway.
Each section below goes deeper into a specific aspect of the programme. We recommend reading the Integrated Master page first, then exploring the curriculum and facilities.
Programme updates, research highlights, and guides for prospective students — written to help you make the most informed decision about your future.
A five-year Integrated Master in Materials Science & Engineering offers a continuous academic pathway from scientific foundations to advanced engineering knowledge, research training and applied innovation, preparing students for the technologies and industries of the future.
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