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2022 Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k

5 Ranked Colleges
201 Degrees Awarded
$22,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Chemical Engineering is the 66th most popular major in the country with 13,610 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $62,963 and had an average of $22,564 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 225 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,125 and $19,531 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 201 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in chemical engineering. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality chemical engineering programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the chemical engineering program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee bachelor’s degree chem eng students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering (Income Over $110k) in Tennessee

#1

Christian Brothers University

Memphis, Tennessee
#5 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Christian Brothers University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k list. Christian Brothers University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Memphis, Tennessee. It awarded 2 bachelors’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree chem eng students whose families make more than $110k list, Christian Brothers has also earned the #5 rank in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $11,900 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Chem Eng students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Christian Brothers.

Read full report on Chemical Engineering at Christian Brothers University

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #2 for the Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k. Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this fairly large public school handed out 23 degrees to qualified bachelors’s chem eng students in 2019-2020.

UT Chattanooga also took the #4 spot in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $12,952 for tennessee bachelor’s degree chem eng students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend UT Chattanooga.

Read more about Chemical Engineering at UT Chattanooga

#3

Tennessee Technological University

Cookeville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tennessee Technological University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k list. This fairly large school is located in Cookeville, Tennessee, and it awarded 61 bachelors’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

Tennessee Tech University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. It costs about $15,929 for tennessee bachelor’s degree chem eng students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Tennessee Tech University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Chemical Engineering at Tennessee Technological University

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the #4 spot on the list. UT Knoxville is located in Knoxville, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 74 bachelors’s chem eng degrees to qualified students.

UT Knoxville also took the #2 spot in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $18,825 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Chem Eng students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The low student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Chemical Engineering Report

#5

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Vallue Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making Over $110k list. Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 41 bachelors’s chem eng degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our tennessee bachelor’s degree chem eng students whose families make more than $110k list, Vanderbilt has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $19,432 for Tennessee Bachelor’s Degree Chem Eng students whose families make more than $110k per year to attend Vanderbilt.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Chemical Engineering at Vanderbilt

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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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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