2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Illinois
4Colleges in Illinois
387Chem 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 looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 387 degrees in chemical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The chem eng program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Chemical Engineering rankings. 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.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for 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.
Any student who is interested in chemical engineering needs to check out Northwestern University. Located in the small city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 48 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great option for students interested in a degree in chemical engineering. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign. A Best Colleges rank of #34 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UIUC is a great university overall.
There were about 181 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UIUC in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in chemical engineering needs to check out University of Illinois at Chicago. Located in the large city of Chicago, UIC is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 85 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UIC in the most recent data year.
Illinois Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Illinois Tech is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago. This school ranks 9th out of 85 schools for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were approximately 73 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Illinois Tech 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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