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2022 Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

1 Ranked Colleges
19 Degrees Awarded
$41,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor's in District of Columbia

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 13,610 people earned their degree in chemical engineering, making the major the 66th most popular in the United States. 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 District of Columbia, there were 22 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,446 and $25,767 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great chemical engineering programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the chemical engineering program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree chem eng students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Chemical Engineering in District of Columbia

#1

Howard University

Washington, District of Columbia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Chem Eng Schools for a Bachelor’s in District of Columbia that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard University landed the #1 spot on the list. Howard is a fairly large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 19 bachelors’s chem eng degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our district of columbia bachelor’s degree chem eng students list, Howard has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. It costs about $41,289 for district of columbia bachelor’s degree chem eng students per year to attend Howard University.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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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