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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #14 |
University of Minnesota
United States |
83.4 | 97.2 | 60.2 | 88.1 |
| #13 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
83.6 | 90.9 | 67.8 | 89.5 |
| #33 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States |
77.9 | 77.7 | 67.8 | 88.2 |
| #50 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
74.3 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 83.8 |
| #44 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
76.2 | 74.1 | 68.5 | 86.6 |
| #35 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
77.3 | 80.6 | 72.1 | 78.0 |
| #48 | 74.6 | 74.1 | 73.7 | 76.2 | |
| #25 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
79.6 | 77.6 | 74.2 | 87.6 |
| #18 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
81.4 | 81.8 | 75.7 | 86.7 |
| #41 |
Northwestern University
United States |
76.6 | 67.0 | 76.4 | 89.5 |
| #27 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
79.3 | 78.0 | 77.5 | 82.9 |
| #24 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
80.0 | 72.8 | 78.1 | 91.6 |
| #21 |
University of Michigan
United States |
80.7 | 77.2 | 79.5 | 86.5 |
| #26 |
Purdue University
United States |
79.5 | 74.1 | 79.7 | 86.5 |
| #34 |
Cornell University
United States |
77.5 | 70.7 | 80.5 | 83.4 |
| #42 | 76.4 | 68.1 | 82.1 | 81.9 | |
| #36 |
Columbia University
United States |
77.2 | 65.9 | 83.0 | 86.5 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
82.1 | 76.7 | 83.0 | 88.4 |
| #36 |
McGill University
Canada |
77.2 | 73.5 | 83.3 | 76.0 |
| #11 |
Princeton University
United States |
84.3 | 82.8 | 83.6 | 87.1 |
| #32 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
78.2 | 74.9 | 83.6 | 77.2 |
| #8 |
Yale University
United States |
87.6 | 87.7 | 83.6 | 91.4 |
| #28 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
79.0 | 72.3 | 84.3 | 82.6 |
| #12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
83.7 | 75.0 | 84.4 | 94.7 |
| #28 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
79.0 | 70.7 | 84.7 | 84.3 |