Bachelor's degree · Engineering · CIP 14.07
Chemical Engineering: earnings and debt by college
The College Scorecard lists 184 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering, together awarding 8,068 of these degrees in the most recent year. At the median institution, graduates who received federal aid earn $80,579 one year after finishing and $102,434 five years after finishing (two separate graduating classes). The median institution's graduates leave with $22,263 in federal student loans.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard.
Colleges
184
Degrees awarded per yeariBachelor's degrees the school awarded in this major in the most recent reported year.
8,068
Median earnings, 1 yriMedian earnings of graduates who received federal aid, 1 year after finishing, among those working and not enrolled. The figure here is the median across institutions; branch campuses share their institution's figure and count once.
$80,579
146 reporting
Median earnings, 5 yrsiMedian earnings of graduates who received federal aid, 5 years after finishing, among those working and not enrolled. The figure here is the median across institutions; branch campuses share their institution's figure and count once.
$102,434
150 reporting
Median debtiMedian federal student-loan balance of the program's graduates. Excludes Parent PLUS and private loans. The figure here is the median across institutions; branch campuses share their institution's figure and count once.
$22,263
132 reporting
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Colleges with a bachelor's in Chemical Engineering
| Texas A&M University-College Station College Station · Public | TX | 217 | $91,414 | $112,032 | $19,500 |
| Ohio State University-Main Campus Columbus · Public | OH | 187 | $84,519 | $101,510 | $19,438 |
| North Carolina State University at Raleigh Raleigh · Public | NC | 170 | $80,661 | $110,902 | $19,500 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign · Public | IL | 145 | $84,410 | $106,584 | $19,500 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Atlanta · Public | GA | 144 | $99,320 | $112,523 | $26,234 |
| The University of Texas at Austin Austin · Public | TX | 138 | $93,355 | $118,378 | $15,438 |
| Purdue University-Main Campus West Lafayette · Public | IN | 137 | $86,660 | $111,198 | $19,500 |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park · Public | PA | 130 | $84,660 | $104,860 | $26,973 |
| The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa · Public | AL | 123 | $81,197 | $110,352 | $20,500 |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley · Public | CA | 120 | $89,950 | $122,455 | $17,417 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison · Public | WI | 120 | $88,450 | $104,090 | $19,500 |
| University of Florida Gainesville · Public | FL | 117 | $86,645 | $103,295 | $17,167 |
| Colorado School of Mines Golden · Public | CO | 112 | $84,538 | $99,457 | $21,656 |
| University of Cincinnati-Main Campus Cincinnati · Public | OH | 109 | $79,805 | $101,066 | $20,000 |
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Minneapolis · Public | MN | 108 | $78,078 | $95,803 | $20,000 |
| Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla · Public | MO | 97 | $78,747 | $97,288 | $21,534 |
| Northeastern University Boston · Private nonprofit | MA | 93 | $85,859 | $119,441 | $25,750 |
| University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Mayaguez · Public | PR | 93 | $49,717 | $71,030 | $7,250 |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe · Public | AZ | 89 | $81,081 | $106,364 | $18,875 |
| University of California-San Diego La Jolla · Public | CA | 89 | $70,446 | $100,641 | $16,555 |
| Oregon State University Corvallis · Public | OR | 84 | $78,780 | $101,438 | $21,499 |
| University of Delaware Newark · Public | DE | 82 | $82,398 | $105,601 | $25,250 |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh · Public | PA | 82 | $81,156 | $102,944 | $26,750 |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor · Public | MI | 81 | $84,872 | $115,086 | $19,274 |
| Michigan Technological University Houghton · Public | MI | 78 | $84,271 | $99,113 | $27,000 |
| University of Houston Houston · Public | TX | 78 | $90,666 | $118,641 | $24,000 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg · Public | VA | 78 | $78,879 | $106,632 | $26,500 |
| Auburn University Auburn · Public | AL | 76 | $86,441 | $104,566 | $19,500 |
| The University of Tennessee-Knoxville Knoxville · Public | TN | 74 | $74,688 | $98,848 | $21,250 |
| Iowa State University Ames · Public | IA | 73 | $79,106 | $95,790 | $23,250 |
| Brigham Young University Provo · Private nonprofit | UT | 72 | $82,712 | $110,587 | $15,659 |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge · Public | LA | 72 | $86,700 | $118,419 | $14,038 |
| University of Kansas Lawrence · Public | KS | 71 | $74,998 | $102,272 | $20,500 |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles · Public | CA | 67 | $88,013 | $115,819 | $13,350 |
| California State Polytechnic University-Pomona Pomona · Public | CA | 66 | $81,076 | $100,416 | $18,357 |
| Colorado State University-Fort Collins Fort Collins · Public | CO | 65 | $68,149 | $96,445 | $18,950 |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore · Private nonprofit | MD | 64 | $76,250 | $116,830 | $7,500 |
| Michigan State University East Lansing · Public | MI | 63 | $78,729 | $107,278 | $21,500 |
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick · Public | NJ | 62 | $80,594 | $110,585 | $21,250 |
| University of Connecticut Storrs · Public | CT | 62 | $78,528 | $96,742 | $21,750 |
| University of Notre Dame Notre Dame · Private nonprofit | IN | 61 | $84,581 | $111,109 | $19,500 |
| University of Utah Salt Lake City · Public | UT | 61 | $73,651 | $97,764 | $23,572 |
| University of Chicago Chicago · Private nonprofit | IL | 59 | $74,388 | n/a | n/a |
| Montana State University Bozeman · Public | MT | 58 | $70,775 | $93,589 | $19,625 |
| University of Toledo Toledo · Public | OH | 58 | $83,825 | $93,413 | $16,500 |
| University of Akron Main Campus Akron · Public | OH | 57 | $81,821 | $96,399 | $17,500 |
| University of Arizona Tucson · Public | AZ | 57 | $79,276 | $104,047 | $13,606 |
| University of Washington-Seattle Campus Seattle · Public | WA | 57 | $87,003 | $100,001 | $14,293 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester · Private nonprofit | MA | 57 | $81,094 | $103,871 | $27,000 |
| Texas Tech University Lubbock · Public | TX | 56 | $79,393 | $104,483 | $24,750 |
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Quick facts: Chemical Engineering
- How many colleges offer a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering?
- The College Scorecard lists 184 colleges that award bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering.
- How much do Chemical Engineering graduates earn?
- Across institutions, the median of graduates' median earnings is $80,579 one year after graduation (146 institutions reporting) and $102,434 five years after graduation (150 institutions reporting). These figures cover graduates who received federal aid and are working and not enrolled in school. Branch campuses share their institution's figures, so each institution counts once.
- Where do Chemical Engineering graduates earn the most five years after graduation?
- By reported median earnings five years after graduation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology ($140,683), Carnegie Mellon University ($130,891), Columbia University in the City of New York ($129,556), Vanderbilt University ($126,083), and North Carolina A & T State University ($123,024).
- How much student debt do Chemical Engineering graduates have?
- The median institution's Chemical Engineering graduates leave with $22,263 in federal student loans (132 institutions reporting). Parent PLUS and private loans are not included.
- Which colleges award the most Chemical Engineering degrees?
- By bachelor's degrees awarded in the most recent year: Texas A&M University-College Station (217), Ohio State University-Main Campus (187), North Carolina State University at Raleigh (170), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (145), and Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus (144).
Related majors in engineering
- Aerospace, Aeronautical, and Astronautical/Space Engineering
- Agricultural Engineering
- Architectural Engineering
- Biomedical/Medical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Construction Engineering
- Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Engineering Science
- Engineering, General
- Engineering, Other
- Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Materials Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Nuclear Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Systems Engineering
- All majors
How these numbers work
Figures cover bachelor's degree programs in Chemical Engineering (CIP code 14.07), as reported in the College Scorecard. Earnings are medians for graduates who received federal aid, measured one and five years after they finished, among those working and not enrolled in school; the one-year and five-year figures describe different graduating classes. Debt is the median federal loan balance at graduation. The Scorecard withholds figures for programs with few graduates, so many smaller programs show n/a. Summary figures are medians across institutions: the Scorecard reports program earnings and debt for a whole institution, so branch campuses share one figure and count once. All figures are from the Scorecard's most recent field-of-study release. More on the data.