Chemical Engineering
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Engineering Schools
Chemical engineering involves chemistry, biology, math and physics. Graduates may become designers and inventors, potentially working with everything from nanotechnology to new energy. These are the top graduate chemical engineering programs. Each school's score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
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Save | Rank | School name | Score | Tuition | Total graduate engineering enrollment | Average GRE quantitative score (master's and Ph.D. students) (new test) | Engineering school research expenditures (2016 fiscal year) | |||||
#1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA | 4.9 | $48,140 per year (full-time) | 3,124 | 166 | $448,324,000 | ||||||
#2Tie | California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA | 4.7 | $45,846 per year (full-time) | 543 | 169 | $105,985,025 | ||||||
#2Tie | University of California—Berkeley Berkeley, CA | 4.7 | $11,220 per year (in-state, full-time); $26,322 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,076 | 165 | $208,862,000 | ||||||
#4 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | 4.5 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 3,675 | 167 | $201,159,834 | ||||||
#5 | University of Minnesota—Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN | 4.4 | $16,240 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,120 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,923 | 164 | $122,194,826 | ||||||
#6Tie | Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA | 4.3 | $13,452 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,872 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 8,850 | 164 | $223,060,000 | ||||||
#6Tie | Princeton University Princeton, NJ | 4.3 | $45,320 per year (full-time) | 615 | 167 | $62,990,633 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of Delaware Newark, DE | 4.3 | $1,720 per credit (in-state, full-time); $1,720 per credit (out-of-state, full-time) | 931 | 169 | $46,436,410 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of Texas—Austin (Cockrell) Austin, TX | 4.3 | $9,850 per year (in-state, full-time); $18,030 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,362 | 165 | $204,333,510 | ||||||
#6Tie | University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI | 4.3 | $11,942 per year (in-state, full-time); $25,269 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,821 | 164 | $141,939,724 | ||||||
#11 | University of California—Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA | 4.1 | $12,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,396 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 721 | 165 | $106,551,188 | ||||||
#12Tie | University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL | 3.9 | $17,834 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,628 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,806 | 166 | $227,584,892 | ||||||
#12Tie | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | 3.9 | $24,444 per year (in-state, full-time); $45,974 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,570 | 166 | $295,646,000 | ||||||
#14 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | 3.8 | $43,000 per year (full-time) | 3,737 | 166 | $195,765,115 | ||||||
#15Tie | Northwestern University (McCormick) Evanston, IL | 3.7 | $50,424 per year (full-time) | 2,088 | 166 | $114,089,862 | ||||||
#15Tie | Purdue University—West Lafayette West Lafayette, IN | 3.7 | $10,332 per year (in-state, full-time); $29,134 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,744 | 164 | $259,111,348 | ||||||
#15Tie | University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | 3.7 | $32,286 per year (full-time) | 1,674 | 165 | $103,539,325 | ||||||
#18 | University of Colorado—Boulder Boulder, CO | 3.6 | $14,094 per year (in-state, full-time); $31,248 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,900 | 162 | $97,551,458 | ||||||
#19Tie | Cornell University Ithaca, NY | 3.5 | $29,500 per year (full-time) | 2,069 | 165 | $118,254,750 | ||||||
#19Tie | Johns Hopkins University (Whiting) Baltimore, MD | 3.5 | $50,410 per year (full-time) | 3,692 | 166 | $121,140,156 | ||||||
#21Tie | North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC | 3.4 | $8,088 per year (in-state, full-time); $22,610 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 3,303 | 164 | $188,960,115 | ||||||
#21Tie | Pennsylvania State University—University Park University Park, PA | 3.4 | $21,294 per year (in-state, full-time); $35,650 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,029 | 163 | $100,096,457 | ||||||
#23Tie | Ohio State University Columbus, OH | 3.3 | $11,928 per year (in-state, full-time); $32,376 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,849 | 164 | $128,840,826 | ||||||
#23Tie | University of California—Los Angeles (Samueli) Los Angeles, CA | 3.3 | $12,684 per year (in-state, full-time); $27,786 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 2,187 | 166 | $96,988,104 | ||||||
#25Tie | University of California—Davis Davis, CA | 3.2 | $13,237 per year (in-state, full-time); $28,339 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 1,090 | 163 | $83,858,768 |