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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
97.1 | 100.0 | 98.0 | 92.2 |
| #2 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
92.6 | 93.9 | 89.9 | 93.5 |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
90.7 | 88.8 | 100.0 | 83.8 |
| #4 | 89.4 | 85.1 | 88.3 | 96.1 | |
| #5 |
Stanford University
United States |
88.8 | 82.3 | 94.2 | 92.1 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
88.7 | 84.0 | 99.9 | 83.7 |
| #7 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
88.6 | 84.5 | 94.6 | 88.0 |
| #8 |
Yale University
United States |
87.6 | 87.7 | 83.6 | 91.4 |
| #9 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
86.5 | 88.3 | 92.9 | 77.7 |
| #10 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
86.4 | 83.9 | 96.7 | 79.5 |
| #11 |
Princeton University
United States |
84.3 | 82.8 | 83.6 | 87.1 |
| #12 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
83.7 | 75.0 | 84.4 | 94.7 |
| #13 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
83.6 | 90.9 | 67.8 | 89.5 |
| #14 |
University of Minnesota
United States |
83.4 | 97.2 | 60.2 | 88.1 |
| #15 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
83.2 | 78.6 | 92.9 | 79.6 |
| #16 |
University of Queensland (UQ)
Australia |
82.6 | 75.6 | 92.0 | 82.4 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
82.1 | 76.7 | 83.0 | 88.4 |
| #18 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
81.4 | 81.8 | 75.7 | 86.7 |
| #18 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
81.4 | 75.5 | 92.6 | 78.2 |
| #20 | 81.2 | 70.9 | 91.9 | 84.1 | |
| #21 |
University of Michigan
United States |
80.7 | 77.2 | 79.5 | 86.5 |
| #22 |
Tsinghua University
China |
80.4 | 76.9 | 89.7 | 75.6 |
| #23 |
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Australia |
80.1 | 71.2 | 89.1 | 83.0 |
| #24 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
80.0 | 72.8 | 78.1 | 91.6 |
| #25 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
79.6 | 77.6 | 74.2 | 87.6 |














