2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Maryland
3Colleges in Maryland
285Chem 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 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Maryland ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 285 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 Maryland 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.
It is difficult to beat Johns Hopkins University if you want to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were approximately 136 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in chemical engineering needs to check out University of Maryland - College Park. Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 36 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were roughly 78 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat University of Maryland - Baltimore County if you want to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. UMBC is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Baltimore. This university ranks 4th out of 36 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were approximately 71 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMBC in the most recent year we have data available.
Chemical Engineering is one of 2 different types of Chemical Engineering programs to choose from.
Notes and References
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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