2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Colorado
3Colleges in Colorado
377Chem Eng Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in chemical engineering, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #64 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of chemical engineering. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 377 degrees in chemical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of chemical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for chemical engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The chem eng school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Colorado.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the chem eng degrees they offer, see the list below.
It's difficult to beat Colorado School of Mines if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the large suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #48 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Mines is a great school overall.
There were approximately 154 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mines in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Colorado State University - Fort Collins if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Colorado State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Fort Collins. This university ranks 4th out of 33 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were roughly 109 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
University of Colorado Boulder is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in chemical engineering. CU - Boulder is a very large public university located in the city of Boulder. This university ranks 2nd out of 33 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 114 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of chemical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for chemical engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
