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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #13 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
83.6 | 90.9 | 67.8 | 89.5 |
| #28 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
79.0 | 72.3 | 84.3 | 82.6 |
| #36 |
Columbia University
United States |
77.2 | 65.9 | 83.0 | 86.5 |
| #34 |
Cornell University
United States |
77.5 | 70.7 | 80.5 | 83.4 |
| #18 |
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Netherlands |
81.4 | 81.8 | 75.7 | 86.7 |
| #17 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
82.1 | 76.7 | 83.0 | 88.4 |
| #4 | 89.4 | 85.1 | 88.3 | 96.1 | |
| #28 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
79.0 | 70.7 | 84.7 | 84.3 |
| #20 | 81.2 | 70.9 | 91.9 | 84.1 | |
| #9 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
86.5 | 88.3 | 92.9 | 77.7 |
| #47 | 75.3 | 70.3 | 86.1 | 71.3 | |
| #15 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
83.2 | 78.6 | 92.9 | 79.6 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
97.1 | 100.0 | 98.0 | 92.2 |
| #36 |
McGill University
Canada |
77.2 | 73.5 | 83.3 | 76.0 |
| #40 |
Monash University
Australia |
76.7 | 71.8 | 87.8 | 72.1 |
| #30 |
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore |
78.6 | 72.8 | 88.2 | 76.7 |
| #48 | 74.6 | 74.1 | 73.7 | 76.2 | |
| #7 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
88.6 | 84.5 | 94.6 | 88.0 |
| #41 |
Northwestern University
United States |
76.6 | 67.0 | 76.4 | 89.5 |
| #42 |
Osaka University
Japan |
76.4 | 70.9 | 85.7 | 74.4 |
| #39 |
Politecnico di Milano
Italy |
77.0 | 63.6 | 87.2 | 84.8 |
| #11 |
Princeton University
United States |
84.3 | 82.8 | 83.6 | 87.1 |
| #26 |
Purdue University
United States |
79.5 | 74.1 | 79.7 | 86.5 |
| #35 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
77.3 | 80.6 | 72.1 | 78.0 |
| #5 |
Stanford University
United States |
88.8 | 82.3 | 94.2 | 92.1 |