2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Chemistry

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Engineering Chemistry is the 1297th most popular major in the country with 13 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 engineering chemistry graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Chemistry Major” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in engineering chemistry. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in engineering chemistry.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Chemistry Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree engineering chemistry students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Engineering Chemistry

1

United States Air Force Academy
USAF Academy, Colorado

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Chemistry Major that were part of this year’s ranking, United States Air Force Academy landed the #1 spot on the list. USAFA is a small public school situated in USAF Academy, Colorado. It awarded 8 bachelors’s engineering chemistry degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Oakland University
Rochester Hills, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Chemistry Major. Rochester Hills, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s engineering chemistry degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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3

Elon University
Elon, North Carolina

Top 10% overall quality in United States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Elon University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Engineering Chemistry Major. Elon, North Carolina is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s engineering chemistry degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 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.