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













