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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #8 |
Yale University
United States |
87.6 | 87.7 | 83.6 | 91.4 |
| #33 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States |
77.9 | 77.7 | 67.8 | 88.2 |
| #27 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
79.3 | 78.0 | 77.5 | 82.9 |
| #25 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
79.6 | 77.6 | 74.2 | 87.6 |
| #46 |
University of Sydney
Australia |
75.5 | 64.5 | 90.1 | 75.7 |
| #16 |
University of Queensland (UQ)
Australia |
82.6 | 75.6 | 92.0 | 82.4 |
| #24 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
80.0 | 72.8 | 78.1 | 91.6 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
88.7 | 84.0 | 99.9 | 83.7 |
| #23 |
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Australia |
80.1 | 71.2 | 89.1 | 83.0 |
| #14 |
University of Minnesota
United States |
83.4 | 97.2 | 60.2 | 88.1 |
| #21 |
University of Michigan
United States |
80.7 | 77.2 | 79.5 | 86.5 |
| #18 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
81.4 | 75.5 | 92.6 | 78.2 |
| #31 |
University of Manchester
United Kingdom |
78.5 | 72.8 | 86.3 | 78.3 |
| #50 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
74.3 | 72.0 | 68.0 | 83.8 |
| #48 |
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom |
74.6 | 62.9 | 86.4 | 78.4 |
| #3 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
90.7 | 88.8 | 100.0 | 83.8 |
| #44 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
76.2 | 74.1 | 68.5 | 86.6 |
| #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 |
| #32 |
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom |
78.2 | 74.9 | 83.6 | 77.2 |
| #22 |
Tsinghua University
China |
80.4 | 76.9 | 89.7 | 75.6 |
| #36 | 77.2 | 69.2 | 86.4 | 78.7 | |
| #45 |
Tohoku University
Japan |
75.9 | 67.8 | 85.7 | 76.9 |
| #10 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
86.4 | 83.9 | 96.7 | 79.5 |
| #42 | 76.4 | 68.1 | 82.1 | 81.9 |













