2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in the Southeast Region

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Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering is the 782nd most popular major in the country with 227 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 20 chemical and biomolecular engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 chemical and biomolecular engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,087 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Chemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering. That schools that top this list have a program in chemical and biomolecular engineering in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Chemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree chemical engineering students.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in the Southeast Region

1

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#21 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Chemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 7 doctorate’s chemical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University of Louisiana

2

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia

Top 15% overall quality in Southeast

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Chemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Virginia Commonwealth University landed the #2 spot on the list. Virginia Commonwealth University is a large school located in Richmond, Virginia that handed out 4 doctorate’s chemical engineering degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University

3

University of South Alabama
Mobile, Alabama

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Alabama. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Chemical Engineering Major in the Southeast Region. Mobile, Alabama is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s chemical engineering degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at University of South Alabama

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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