2025 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Maryland
3Colleges in Maryland
265Chem Eng Degrees Awarded
$73,817Avg 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for chemical engineering students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 265 degrees in chemical engineering annually.
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.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
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 best 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 large city of Baltimore. A Best Colleges rank of #6 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were approximately 127 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program state that they receive average early career wages of $51,267.
It is hard to beat University of Maryland - College Park if you want to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. UMCP is a very large public university located in the suburb of College Park. This university ranks 2nd out of 35 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were roughly 75 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent data year. Those chemical engineering students who get their degree from University of Maryland - College Park receive $7,960 more than the typical chem eng student.
University of Maryland - Baltimore County is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the large suburb of Baltimore, UMBC is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 35 colleges 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. Soon after graduation, chem eng degree recipients usually earn around $66,023 in their early careers.
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.
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.
