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Most Popular Schools for Chemical Engineering Major & Degree Program

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.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus 252 4% $28,776
2 Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus 238 2% $36,652
3 Texas A & M University-College Station 227 1% $29,506
4 North Carolina State University at Raleigh 224 3% $23,977
5 Ohio State University-Main Campus 220 2% $27,367
6 Purdue University-Main Campus 212 2% $22,822
7 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 201 2% $30,102
8 University of Florida 190 1% $21,211
9 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus 187 2% $33,503
10 The University of Texas at Austin 182 1% $26,506
11 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 170 1% $32,443
12 Michigan State University 169 1% $28,862
13 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 168 1% $30,298
14 Iowa State University 163 2% $21,186
15 University of California-San Diego 163 2% $32,838
16 Arizona State University-Tempe 162 1% $28,048
17 Northeastern University 159 2% $70,592
18 The University of Alabama 157 2% $29,872
19 Oregon State University 155 2% $26,892
20 University of California-Berkeley 150 1% $38,066
21 University of South Florida-Main Campus 149 1% $23,320
22 Cornell University 140 2% $73,904
23 University of California-Davis 139 1% $35,177
24 Missouri University of Science and Technology 138 5% $22,440
25 Carnegie Mellon University 137 3% $72,283
26 University of Colorado Boulder 132 2% $31,044
27 New Jersey Institute of Technology 131 5% $37,738
28 University of Southern California 129 1% $74,825
29 Columbia University in the City of New York 122 1% $76,856
30 University at Buffalo 120 2% $27,758
31 Johns Hopkins University 120 1% $71,901
32 University of Notre Dame 120 4% $71,801
33 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 120 1% $27,898
34 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College 114 2% $30,360
35 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 113 6% $71,998
36 California State University-Long Beach 110 1% $24,738
37 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 110 1% $27,638
38 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 110 6% $67,504
39 Brigham Young University-Provo 108 1% $18,776
40 University of California-Riverside 108 2% $35,242
41 University of Maryland-College Park 107 1% $27,146
42 University of Kentucky 106 2% $30,101
43 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 106 1% $27,476
44 University of Wisconsin-Madison 104 1% $26,025
45 University of Arkansas 104 2% $25,500
46 Michigan Technological University 103 6% $29,969
47 University of Delaware 103 2% $29,342
48 University of Akron Main Campus 103 2% $27,279
49 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 101 2% $29,097
50 Auburn University 101 2% $31,590
51 Drexel University 100 2% $70,223
52 Texas Tech University 100 1% $24,472
53 University of Houston 99 1% $23,225
54 University of Massachusetts-Lowell 98 2% $30,552
55 University of Kansas 98 2% $26,566
56 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 95 1% $26,834
57 University of Utah 95 1% $24,472
58 University of Illinois at Chicago 95 1% $30,866
59 California State Polytechnic University-Pomona 94 2% $28,891
60 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 93 1% $30,913
61 University of California-Los Angeles 91 1% $34,620
62 University of Connecticut 89 1% $32,404
63 Colorado School of Mines 89 6% $35,498
64 University of Louisville 88 2% $27,980
65 Rice University 88 5% $65,150
66 The University of Tennessee-Knoxville 87 1% $31,510
67 Mississippi State University 86 2% $24,957
68 University of Toledo 85 2% $28,423
69 Montana State University 83 3% $22,453
70 University of Dayton 82 3% $59,230
71 Texas A & M University-Kingsville 82 4% $23,285
72 University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez 82 5% $6,262
73 Florida State University 81 1% $22,168
74 Lehigh University 79 4% $68,595
75 Villanova University 77 2% $70,728
76 Stevens Institute of Technology 77 3% $69,292
77 Case Western Reserve University 74 3% $67,332
78 University of Rochester 74 2% $72,721
79 New York University 74 0% $73,566
80 Tennessee Technological University 73 3% $26,131
81 Northwestern University 73 1% $74,649
82 San Jose State University 72 1% $29,193
83 Illinois Institute of Technology 72 3% $65,386
84 University of New Mexico-Main Campus 72 1% $22,639
85 Oklahoma State University-Main Campus 71 1% $24,105
86 University of Arizona 71 1% $29,217
87 Clemson University 71 1% $31,270
88 Princeton University 70 4% $70,900
89 Lamar University 69 1% $22,641
90 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 68 2% $28,058
91 University of South Carolina-Columbia 67 1% $28,301
92 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 67 2% $70,240
93 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 66 12% $67,697
94 University of California-Irvine 66 1% $34,261
95 Cleveland State University 65 2% $29,045
96 Clarkson University 65 5% $68,112
97 Colorado State University-Fort Collins 64 1% $26,231
98 Miami University-Oxford 64 1% $33,229
99 Prairie View A & M University 63 4% $24,847
100 Kansas State University 62 1% $24,923

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Chemical Engineering program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.