2023 Most Popular Colleges for Chemical Engineering in Kentucky

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 “Most Well Attended Chem Eng Major in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 12,917 people earned their degree in chemical engineering, making the major the 70th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, chemical engineering graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $65,870 and had an average of $23,285 in loans still to pay off.

Across Kentucky, there were 140 chemical engineering graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,455 and $23,375 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Chem Eng Major in Kentucky” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in chemical engineering. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in chemical engineering.

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Most Well Attended Chem Eng Major in Kentucky

The colleges and universities below are the best for kentucky chem eng students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Chemical Engineering in Kentucky

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#1 overall quality in Kentucky

$43,675 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,607 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Chem Eng Major in Kentucky list. University of Kentucky is a large school located in Lexington, Kentucky that handed out 87 ’s chem eng degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full University of Kentucky Chemical Engineering Report

2

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

#2 overall quality in Kentucky

$49,447 Average Early-Career Earnings

$22,925 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisville. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Chem Eng Major in Kentucky list. University of Louisville is a public institution located in Louisville, Kentucky. The school has a large population, and it awarded 53 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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