diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7b8e75e2e36..55f945dc37e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Fixed iou scores in detection for either empty predictions/targets leading to wrong scores ([#2805](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2805))
 
 
+- Fixed `MetricCollection` compatibility with `torch.jit.script` ([#2813](https://github.com/Lightning-AI/torchmetrics/pull/2813))
+
+
 ---
 
 ## [1.5.1] - 2024-10-22
diff --git a/src/torchmetrics/collections.py b/src/torchmetrics/collections.py
index 0b7f927deb9..baa5b5ae9a6 100644
--- a/src/torchmetrics/collections.py
+++ b/src/torchmetrics/collections.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 # this is just a bypass for this module name collision with built-in one
 from collections import OrderedDict
 from copy import deepcopy
-from typing import Any, Dict, Hashable, Iterable, Iterator, List, Mapping, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Any, ClassVar, Dict, Hashable, Iterable, Iterator, List, Mapping, Optional, Sequence, Tuple, Union
 
 import torch
 from torch import Tensor
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ class name of the metric:
 
     _modules: Dict[str, Metric]  # type: ignore[assignment]
     _groups: Dict[int, List[str]]
+    __jit_unused_properties__: ClassVar[List[str]] = ["metric_state"]
 
     def __init__(
         self,
diff --git a/tests/unittests/bases/test_collections.py b/tests/unittests/bases/test_collections.py
index 77b333ce66a..e498e18dc84 100644
--- a/tests/unittests/bases/test_collections.py
+++ b/tests/unittests/bases/test_collections.py
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@
 seed_all(42)
 
 
+def test_metric_collection_jit_script():
+    """Test that the MetricCollection can be scripted and jitted."""
+    m1 = DummyMetricSum()
+    m2 = DummyMetricDiff()
+    metric_collection = MetricCollection([m1, m2])
+    scripted = torch.jit.script(metric_collection)
+    assert isinstance(scripted, torch.jit.ScriptModule)
+
+
 def test_metric_collection(tmpdir):
     """Test that updating the metric collection is equal to individually updating metrics in the collection."""
     m1 = DummyMetricSum()