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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #25 |
Cornell University
United States |
77.0 | 62.2 | 80.8 | 89.9 |
| #22 |
Columbia University
United States |
77.1 | 67.4 | 83.5 | 83.7 |
| #22 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
77.1 | 68.3 | 70.8 | 89.0 |
| #22 |
University of Michigan
United States |
77.1 | 61.1 | 84.4 | 89.5 |
| #21 | 77.8 | 68.3 | 80.6 | 86.0 | |
| #20 |
University of Melbourne
Australia |
78.0 | 67.6 | 90.8 | 82.0 |
| #19 |
Peking University
China |
78.6 | 72.5 | 95.0 | 76.4 |
| #18 |
Kyoto University
Japan |
78.8 | 75.8 | 92.2 | 75.0 |
| #17 |
Northwestern University
United States |
79.4 | 69.8 | 78.9 | 89.2 |
| #16 |
Yale University
United States |
80.4 | 70.5 | 84.0 | 88.5 |
| #15 |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland |
80.8 | 67.6 | 81.8 | 93.6 |
| #14 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
81.5 | 80.0 | 94.3 | 76.5 |
| #13 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
82.1 | 74.1 | 96.1 | 83.0 |
| #12 | 82.7 | 76.9 | 87.8 | 85.9 | |
| #11 | 82.9 | 74.2 | 86.0 | 90.1 | |
| #10 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
83.2 | 75.0 | 90.8 | 87.7 |
| #9 |
University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Hong Kong |
83.3 | 75.4 | 90.7 | 87.4 |
| #8 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
83.8 | 76.3 | 95.0 | 85.7 |
| #7 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
84.7 | 72.5 | 79.9 | 99.4 |
| #6 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
84.8 | 81.2 | 97.8 | 81.9 |
| #5 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
85.0 | 80.0 | 68.4 | 98.2 |
| #4 |
Stanford University
United States |
87.0 | 77.8 | 92.1 | 93.7 |
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
90.4 | 83.7 | 100.0 | 92.4 |
| #2 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
90.5 | 81.4 | 91.5 | 99.0 |
| #1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
97.5 | 100.0 | 94.7 | 96.5 |
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