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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #12 | 82.7 | 76.9 | 87.8 | 85.9 | |
| #21 | 77.8 | 68.3 | 80.6 | 86.0 | |
| #41 |
Texas A&M University
United States |
74.5 | 58.9 | 82.8 | 86.0 |
| #9 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
83.3 | 75.4 | 90.7 | 87.4 |
| #36 |
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
United States |
75.1 | 60.9 | 78.9 | 87.5 |
| #10 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
83.2 | 75.0 | 90.8 | 87.7 |
| #16 |
Yale University
United States |
80.4 | 70.5 | 84.0 | 88.5 |
| #22 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
77.1 | 68.3 | 70.8 | 89.0 |
| #17 |
Northwestern University
United States |
79.4 | 69.8 | 78.9 | 89.2 |
| #29 |
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States |
76.0 | 63.0 | 75.1 | 89.4 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
77.1 | 61.1 | 84.4 | 89.5 |
| #25 |
Cornell University
United States |
77.0 | 62.2 | 80.8 | 89.9 |
| #11 | 82.9 | 74.2 | 86.0 | 90.1 | |
| #26 |
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States |
76.3 | 59.0 | 83.2 | 90.2 |
| #31 |
University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
United States |
75.6 | 61.3 | 74.4 | 90.5 |
| #28 |
University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)
United States |
76.2 | 65.5 | 66.9 | 91.6 |
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
90.4 | 83.7 | 100.0 | 92.4 |
| #15 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
80.8 | 67.6 | 81.8 | 93.6 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
87.0 | 77.8 | 92.1 | 93.7 |
| #31 |
University of Washington
United States |
75.6 | 56.2 | 76.6 | 94.4 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
97.5 | 100.0 | 94.7 | 96.5 |
| #5 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
85.0 | 80.0 | 68.4 | 98.2 |
| #2 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
90.5 | 81.4 | 91.5 | 99.0 |
| #7 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
84.7 | 72.5 | 79.9 | 99.4 |
| #49 |
Rice University
United States |
73.3 | 50.9 | 64.9 | 100.0 |
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