2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Virginia
3Colleges in Virginia
227Chem Eng Degrees Awarded
Chemical Engineering is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #64 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Virginia to determine which ones were the best for chemical engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 227 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. We derive our Best Overall Chemical Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Virginia list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the chem eng degree levels they offer.
University of Virginia - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in chemical engineering. University of Virginia is a very large public university located in the suburb of Charlottesville. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 64 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent data year.
Virginia Tech is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the small city of Blacksburg, Virginia Tech is a public school with a fairly large student population. This school ranks 2nd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were approximately 110 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Virginia Tech in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Virginia Commonwealth University if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the midsize city of Richmond, VCU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were roughly 48 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at VCU 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. We derive our Best Overall Chemical Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
