2025 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in Massachusetts
6Colleges in Massachusetts
558Chem 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 6 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for chemical engineering students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 558 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 Massachusetts list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Chemical Engineering in Massachusetts
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.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the city of Cambridge, MIT is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means MIT is a great school overall.
There were roughly 113 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at MIT in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the chemical engineering degree program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology make $7,677 above the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
Northeastern University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in chemical engineering. Northeastern is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #33 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Northeastern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 130 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Northeastern in the most recent data year. Degree recipients from the chemical engineering program at Northeastern University get $8,063 more than the standard college graduate in this field shortly after graduation.
It is hard to beat Worcester Polytechnic Institute if you want to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. WPI is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Worcester. This school ranks 8th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 114 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at WPI in the most recent year we have data available. Those chemical engineering students who get their degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute receive $4,950 more than the typical chem eng grad.
Any student who is interested in chemical engineering needs to look into Tufts University. Tufts is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Medford. A Best Colleges rank of #39 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Tufts is a great university overall.
There were about 38 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Tufts in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the chem eng program make about $75,367 for their early career.
Located in the city of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 10th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were roughly 83 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst 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 $72,514.
Located in the large suburb of Lowell, UMass Lowell is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 17th out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 80 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UMass Lowell in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the chemical engineering program at University of Massachusetts - Lowell get $3,563 above the average graduate in this field when they enter the workforce.
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.
