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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #50 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
74.3 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 83.8 |
| #48 | 74.6 | 74.1 | 73.7 | 76.2 | |
| #48 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
74.6 | 62.9 | 86.4 | 78.4 |
| #47 | 75.3 | 70.3 | 86.1 | 71.3 | |
| #46 |
University of Sydney
Australia |
75.5 | 64.5 | 90.1 | 75.7 |
| #45 |
Tohoku University
Japan |
75.9 | 67.8 | 85.7 | 76.9 |
| #44 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
76.2 | 74.1 | 68.5 | 86.6 |
| #42 |
Osaka University
Japan |
76.4 | 70.9 | 85.7 | 74.4 |
| #42 | 76.4 | 68.1 | 82.1 | 81.9 | |
| #41 |
Northwestern University
United States |
76.6 | 67.0 | 76.4 | 89.5 |
| #40 |
Monash University
Australia |
76.7 | 71.8 | 87.8 | 72.1 |
| #39 |
Politecnico di Milano
Italy |
77.0 | 63.6 | 87.2 | 84.8 |
| #36 |
Columbia University
United States |
77.2 | 65.9 | 83.0 | 86.5 |
| #36 |
McGill University
Canada |
77.2 | 73.5 | 83.3 | 76.0 |
| #36 | 77.2 | 69.2 | 86.4 | 78.7 | |
| #35 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
77.3 | 80.6 | 72.1 | 78.0 |
| #34 |
Cornell University
United States |
77.5 | 70.7 | 80.5 | 83.4 |
| #33 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States |
77.9 | 77.7 | 67.8 | 88.2 |
| #32 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
78.2 | 74.9 | 83.6 | 77.2 |
| #31 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
78.5 | 72.8 | 86.3 | 78.3 |
| #30 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
78.6 | 72.8 | 88.2 | 76.7 |
| #28 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
79.0 | 72.3 | 84.3 | 82.6 |
| #28 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
79.0 | 70.7 | 84.7 | 84.3 |
| #27 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
79.3 | 78.0 | 77.5 | 82.9 |
| #26 |
Purdue University
United States |
79.5 | 74.1 | 79.7 | 86.5 |













