2024 Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Carolina

a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #51 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in South Carolina to determine which ones were the best for chemical engineering students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 138 bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering to qualified students.

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Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to chemical engineering students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other chemical engineering students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt chemical engineering students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized chemical engineering related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for chemical engineering students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Chemical Engineering Bachelor's Degree Schools in South Carolina ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Chemical Engineering in South Carolina

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

Top South Carolina Schools for a Bachelor's in Chem Eng

1

Clemson University
Clemson, SC

70 Annual Graduates

$70,368 Median Starting Salary

$21,450 Median Student Debt

Clemson University is a wonderful choice for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. Located in the large suburb of Clemson, Clemson is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the chemical engineering major at Clemson University get $2,499 more than the typical college grad with the same degree when they enter the workforce.

More information about a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from Clemson University

2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, SC

68 Annual Graduates

$65,370 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

University of South Carolina - Columbia is a great decision for students interested in a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. UofSC is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Columbia.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the chem eng program state that they receive average early career income of $65,370.

More information about a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from University of South Carolina - Columbia

Best Chemical Engineering Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Chemical Engineering Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	225	309
Georgia	224	185
Tennessee	220	241
North Carolina	213	163
Virginia	213	194
Kentucky	187	124
Alabama	184	346
Louisiana	171	217
Mississippi	169	128
Arkansas	167	75
West Virginia	147	52

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Chemical Engineering Related Rankings by Major

One of 41 majors within the Engineering area of study, Chemical Engineering has other similar majors worth exploring.

Chem Eng Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Chemical Engineering	138

Majors Similar to Chem Eng

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Mechanical Engineering	586
Civil Engineering	229
Industrial Engineering	191
Electrical Engineering	168
Biomedical Engineering	135
Computer Engineering	126
Materials Engineering	44
Environmental Engineering	27
Agricultural Engineering	18
Engineering Science	11

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Mikulova. More about our data sources and methodologies.