World's Best Universities
Chemical Engineering
Chemical engineering students take classes about chemistry, biology, math, and physics. After graduation, they often become designers and inventors, working with everything from nanotechnology to new energy. These are the world's top universities for chemical engineering. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | 89.4 | 85.1 | 88.3 | 96.1 | |
| #12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
83.7 | 75.0 | 84.4 | 94.7 |
| #2 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
92.6 | 93.9 | 89.9 | 93.5 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
97.1 | 100.0 | 98.0 | 92.2 |
| #5 |
Stanford University
United States |
88.8 | 82.3 | 94.2 | 92.1 |
| #24 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
80.0 | 72.8 | 78.1 | 91.6 |
| #8 |
Yale University
United States |
87.6 | 87.7 | 83.6 | 91.4 |
| #13 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
83.6 | 90.9 | 67.8 | 89.5 |
| #41 |
Northwestern University
United States |
76.6 | 67.0 | 76.4 | 89.5 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
82.1 | 76.7 | 83.0 | 88.4 |
| #33 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States |
77.9 | 77.7 | 67.8 | 88.2 |
| #14 |
University of Minnesota
United States |
83.4 | 97.2 | 60.2 | 88.1 |
| #7 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
88.6 | 84.5 | 94.6 | 88.0 |
| #25 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
79.6 | 77.6 | 74.2 | 87.6 |
| #11 |
Princeton University
United States |
84.3 | 82.8 | 83.6 | 87.1 |
| #18 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
81.4 | 81.8 | 75.7 | 86.7 |
| #44 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
76.2 | 74.1 | 68.5 | 86.6 |
| #36 |
Columbia University
United States |
77.2 | 65.9 | 83.0 | 86.5 |
| #26 |
Purdue University
United States |
79.5 | 74.1 | 79.7 | 86.5 |
| #21 |
University of Michigan
United States |
80.7 | 77.2 | 79.5 | 86.5 |
| #39 |
Politecnico di Milano
Italy |
77.0 | 63.6 | 87.2 | 84.8 |
| #28 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
79.0 | 70.7 | 84.7 | 84.3 |
| #20 | 81.2 | 70.9 | 91.9 | 84.1 | |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
90.7 | 88.8 | 100.0 | 83.8 |
| #50 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
74.3 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 83.8 |