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The Bachelor of Science in Materials Science, offered by the Department of Physics, provides both a strong preparation for those wishing to attend graduate school in materials science or related disciplines and for those who intend to enter the scientific workforce upon completion of a bachelor's degree. Students who wish to transfer into this program should consult first with the Physics faculty advisor.

The Bachelor of Science in Materials Science stands at the interface between physics, chemistry, computer and information science, and applied mathematics, with innovation and technology applications bridging to applied sciences. Its foundational structure is embedded in multiple College of Science and Technology (CST) disciplines. Indeed, the frontiers of the subject now demand participation of artificial intelligence/machine learning methodologies. Materials science is important as a research and education driver that reaches students in almost every discipline of science and technology. Graduates proficient in this area are more and more in demand. Indeed, the national initiative in Quantum Information Science makes it clear that Quantum Materials will be a focus for industry and academia. Temple's Bachelor of Science in Materials Science focuses on the science behind materials science, and is not an engineering program.

Materials Science evolved historically from the metallurgy of naturally occurring elements and their alloys (and glass) to embrace not only an enormous variety of "hard" elemental (metallic and semiconducting) alloys and oxide-based materials (superconductors, catalysts, etc.) that underpin technology applications, but also a vast array of "soft" materials including synthetic and natural polymers, as well as more recently the two-dimensional graphene-like constructs, which will be needed for future advanced/strategic technologies.