2025 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in New Jersey
4Colleges in New Jersey
426Chem Eng Degrees Awarded
$73,817Avg Early-Career Salary
Chemical Engineering is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #70 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Chemical Engineering Schools in New Jersey ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 426 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for chemical engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Chemical Engineering Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Chemical Engineering in New Jersey
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the chem eng degrees they offer, see the list below.
Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Stevens is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Hoboken. A Best Colleges rank of #78 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Stevens is a great school overall.
There were about 53 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Stevens in the most recent data year. Those chemical engineering students who get their degree from Stevens Institute of Technology make $5,522 more than the typical chem eng grad.
It is hard to beat Rutgers University - New Brunswick if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public university located in the small city of New Brunswick. A Best Colleges rank of #74 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Rutgers New Brunswick is a great university overall.
There were about 160 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Rutgers New Brunswick in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program report average early career income of $67,777.
It's hard to beat New Jersey Institute of Technology if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the large city of Newark, NJIT is a public school with a fairly large student population. This school ranks 5th out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were approximately 91 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at NJIT in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the chem eng program earn an average of $71,592 in their early career salary.
Rowan University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the suburb of Glassboro, Rowan is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 13th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were about 36 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Rowan in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the chem eng program make around $61,045 in their early career salary.
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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for chemical engineering schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
