2025 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Missouri
3Colleges in Missouri
198Chem 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.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of chemical engineering. Combined, these schools handed out 198 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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Missouri list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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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.
It is hard to beat Washington University in St Louis if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the suburb of Saint Louis, WUSTL is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #21 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means WUSTL is a great university overall.
There were about 56 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WUSTL in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, chem eng degree recipients generally earn about $69,801 at the beginning of their careers.
Missouri University of Science and Technology is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Missouri University of Science and Technology is a medium-sized public university located in the remote town of Rolla. This university ranks 5th out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 99 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Missouri University of Science and Technology in the most recent data year. Those chemical engineering students who get their degree from Missouri University of Science and Technology receive $4,552 more than the standard chem eng grad.
Any student pursuing a degree in chemical engineering has to check out University of Missouri - Columbia. Mizzou is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia. This university ranks 3rd out of 48 schools for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 43 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mizzou in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program state that they receive average early career wages of $69,950.
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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