2024 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Maryland
3Colleges in Maryland
265Chem Eng Degrees Awarded
$58,580Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in chemical engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #70 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of chemical engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 265 degrees in chemical engineering to qualified students.
Your choice of chemical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Chemical Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Maryland list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the chem eng degree levels they offer.
Johns Hopkins University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Johns Hopkins is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Baltimore. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were roughly 127 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, chem eng degree recipients usually make about $51,234 at the beginning of their careers.
It is difficult to beat University of Maryland - College Park if you want to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. UMCP is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of College Park. This university ranks 2nd out of 36 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were about 75 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent year we have data available. Chemical Engineering degree recipients from University of Maryland - College Park receive an earnings boost of about $9,598 above the average earnings of chemical engineering majors.
University of Maryland - Baltimore County is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 36 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were approximately 63 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMBC in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program report average early career earnings of $56,329.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of chemical engineering school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Chemical Engineering School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
