Chemical Engineering

A program that prepares individuals to apply mathematical and scientific principles to the design, development and operational evaluation of systems employing chemical processes, such as chemical reactors, kinetic systems, electrochemical systems, energy conservation processes, heat and mass transfer systems, and separation processes; and the applied analysis of chemical problems such as corrosion, particle abrasion, energy loss, pollution, and fluid mechanics.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 184 institutions across the United States, with a total of 34686 degrees awarded annually.

Certificates Below Bachelor's

certificates awarded

Associate Degrees

degrees awarded

Bachelor's Degrees

8,785

degrees awarded

Post-Baccalaureate Certificates

certificates awarded

Master's Degrees

1,617

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

1,088

degrees awarded

Other Awards

23,129

awards given

Top Schools for Chemical Engineering

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank	Institution	Degrees
1	Texas A & M University-College Station College Station, TX	941
2	Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta, GA	660
3	Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette, IN	627
4	University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA	612
5	North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh, NC	585
6	The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX	579
7	Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus, OH	555
8	Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO	555
9	Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ	540
10	Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD	510
11	Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, NJ	501
12	Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA	480
13	Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY	462
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI	453
15	University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN	441
16	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL	441
17	University of Florida Gainesville, FL	435
18	Northeastern University Boston, MA	432
19	University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati, OH	408
20	University of California-San Diego La Jolla, CA	390
21	The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL	360
22	Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX	354
23	University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI	354
24	Michigan State University East Lansing, MI	348
25	Iowa State University Ames, IA	339
26	University of Houston Houston, TX	336
27	Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla, MO	318
28	Cornell University Ithaca, NY	315
29	University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA	312
30	University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN	306
31	University of Delaware Newark, DE	303
32	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA	297
33	Auburn University Auburn, AL	291
34	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA	291
35	Drexel University Philadelphia, PA	288
36	California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona, CA	288
37	Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA	285
38	Oregon State University Corvallis, OR	279
39	Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS	276
40	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA	273
41	Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge, LA	270
42	Michigan Technological University Houghton, MI	267
43	University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle, WA	264
44	University of Kentucky Lexington, KY	264
45	University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez, PR	261
46	University of California-Irvine Irvine, CA	258
47	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY	252
48	The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville, TN	252
49	University of South Florida Tampa, FL	249
50	University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, CO	249
51	University of Kansas Lawrence, KS	249
52	University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY	246
53	University of Akron Main Campus Akron, OH	246
54	University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA	246
55	University of Massachusetts-Lowell Lowell, MA	246
56	New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ	243
57	Brigham Young University Provo, UT	237
58	University of Arizona Tucson, AZ	237
59	Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA	237
60	Montana State University Bozeman, MT	234
61	Clemson University Clemson, SC	234
62	Northwestern University Evanston, IL	231
63	University of Maryland-College Park College Park, MD	231
64	University of California-Davis Davis, CA	228
65	University of California-Riverside Riverside, CA	225
66	Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins, CO	222
67	University of Connecticut Storrs, CT	222
68	University of Dayton Dayton, OH	216
69	University of Massachusetts-Amherst Amherst, MA	213
70	Oklahoma State University-Main Campus Stillwater, OK	213
71	University of South Carolina-Columbia Columbia, SC	207
72	University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT	201
73	New York University New York, NY	198
74	Clarkson University Potsdam, NY	198
75	University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, IL	195
76	University of Toledo Toledo, OH	192
77	University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR	192
78	University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA	189
79	Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH	186
80	University of Maryland-Baltimore County Baltimore, MD	183
81	Rice University Houston, TX	183
82	Villanova University Villanova, PA	177
83	Kansas State University Manhattan, KS	174
84	Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken, NJ	171
85	Princeton University Princeton, NJ	171
86	Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA	168
87	University of Louisville Louisville, KY	168
88	Washington University in St Louis Saint Louis, MO	165
89	Washington State University Pullman, WA	159
90	Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI	159
91	Texas A & M University-Kingsville Kingsville, TX	157
92	Lamar University Beaumont, TX	156
93	University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA	156
94	University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus Norman, OK	156
95	University of Iowa Iowa City, IA	150
96	Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL	150
97	CUNY City College New York, NY	147
98	California State University-Long Beach Long Beach, CA	147
99	South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, SD	144
100	Stanford University Stanford, CA	141