World's Best Universities: Chemistry
Students who earn chemistry degrees can go on to find jobs in laboratories, government agencies, research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, colleges and universities, and more. These are the world's top universities for chemistry. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 |
Harvard University
United States |
92.6 | 91.7 | 100.0 | 89.2 |
| #2 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
88.1 | 93.7 | 56.3 | 100.0 |
| #3 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
86.7 | 90.0 | 72.5 | 90.6 |
| #4 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
85.9 | 100.0 | 85.8 | 62.5 |
| #5 |
Stanford University
United States |
78.0 | 76.5 | 64.6 | 89.4 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
76.3 | 91.1 | 78.2 | 50.5 |
| #7 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
69.6 | 75.4 | 36.9 | 81.8 |
| #8 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
68.3 | 57.6 | 49.0 | 99.1 |
| #9 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
64.8 | 68.5 | 62.0 | 60.4 |
| #10 | 62.3 | 71.9 | 42.3 | 59.7 | |
| #11 |
Yale University
United States |
60.7 | 59.7 | 51.4 | 68.5 |
| #12 |
Princeton University
United States |
58.2 | 59.5 | 43.7 | 65.6 |
| #13 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
57.0 | 71.9 | 43.4 | 41.2 |
| #14 |
Cornell University
United States |
56.5 | 52.6 | 47.5 | 68.9 |
| #15 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
55.1 | 58.7 | 42.4 | 57.4 |
| #16 |
Columbia University
United States |
53.7 | 49.3 | 50.2 | 63.5 |
| #16 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
53.7 | 37.4 | 52.7 | 81.5 |
| #18 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
52.5 | 58.6 | 37.2 | 52.6 |
| #19 | 51.8 | 53.0 | 38.3 | 58.7 | |
| #20 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
51.5 | 50.7 | 24.4 | 71.0 |
| #21 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
51.4 | 42.8 | 29.8 | 80.2 |
| #22 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
50.7 | 46.0 | 33.4 | 70.1 |
| #23 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
50.4 | 43.5 | 56.9 | 57.6 |
| #24 |
University of Chicago
United States |
50.2 | 47.8 | 44.5 | 58.1 |
| #25 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
50.0 | 60.1 | 44.1 | 37.2 |
