Top 100 universities for Chemical Engineering
2 min readSep 13, 2022
NRC Rankings in Chemical Engineering
1 Minnesota 4.86
2 MIT 4.73
3 Cal Berkeley 4.63
4 Wisconsin 4.62
5 Illinois 4.42
6 Cal Tech 4.41
7 Stanford 4.35
8 Delaware 4.34
9 Princeton 4.14
10 Texas 4.08
11 Penn 3.97
12 Carnegie Mellon 3.87
13 Cornell 3.86
14 Cal Santa Barbara 3.82
15 Northwestern 3.75
16 Purdue 3.67
17 Houston 3.66
18 Michigan 3.52
19 CUNY 3.46
20 Washington 3.44
21 Rice 3.35
22 Massachusetts 3.35
23 Penn State 3.34
24 Notre Dame 3.30
25 North Carolina State 3.20
26 Colorado 3.18
27 Lehigh 3.13
28 Cal Davis 3.11
29 SUNY Buffalo 3.08
30 Virginia 3.01
31 Georgia Tech 3.01
32 Yale 2.98
33 Iowa State 2.98
34 Florida 2.97
35 RPI 2.95
36 Johns Hopkins 2.95
37 Texas A&M 2.91
38 Washington (St. Louis) 2.89
39 UCLA 2.88
40 Rochester 2.81
41 Ohio State 2.73
42 VPI 2.67
43 Rutgers 2.66
44 Pittsburgh 2.64
45 Michigan State 2.60
46 Case Western 2.59
47 Syracuse 2.57
48 Illinois Tech 2.57
49 Clarkson 2.54
50 Brigham Young 2.53
51 Connecticut 2.49
52 Maryland 2.48
53 Utah 2.47
54 Oklahoma 2.41
55 LSU 2.40
56 Columbia 2.29
57 Southern Cal 2.25
58 Missouri Rolla 2.22
59 Tennessee 2.18
60 Kansas State 2.18
61 Illinois Chicago 2.15
62 Washington State 2.14
63 Polytechnic 2.14
64 Arizona State 2.12
65 Colorado School of Mines 2.11
66 Wayne State 2.09
67 Iowa 2.09
68 West Virginia 2.08
69 Worcester Polytechnic Inst 2.07
70 Oklahoma State 2.04
71 Kentucky 1.98
72 Auburn 1.98
73 Tulsa 1.97
74 Cincinnati 1.97
75 Vanderbilt 1.94
76 Kansas 1.94
77 Oregon State 1.93
78 Tulane 1.91
79 Arizona 1.86
80 New Jersey Tech 1.75
81 Clemson 1.74
82 Stevens Tech 1.73
83 Missouri 1.70
84 Duke 1.63
85 Akron 1.62
86 Wyoming 1.55
87 Maine 1.49
88 Rhode Island 1.42
89 Northeastern 1.38
90 Louisville 1.33
91 Idaho 1.33
92 Ohio 0.93
93 Mississippi 0.76
As per NRC 2010 report.