2025 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
8Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
660Chem 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.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Chemical Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 660 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.
The chem eng school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Chemical Engineering Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region.
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Best Schools for Chemical Engineering in the Rocky Mountains Region
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.
Colorado School of Mines is a good option for students pursuing a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the suburb of Golden, Mines is a public school with a medium-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #87 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Mines is a great school overall.
There were about 183 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Mines 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 $68,318.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in chemical engineering. Colorado State is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Fort Collins. A Best Colleges rank of #178 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 79 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the chem eng program earn about $62,468 in the first couple years of working.
Every student who is interested in chemical engineering has to check out University of Colorado Boulder. CU - Boulder is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were approximately 85 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, chem eng degree recipients typically earn around $70,359 in their early careers.
It is difficult to beat Brigham Young University - Provo if you wish to pursue a degree in chemical engineering. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Provo. This university ranks 3rd out of 11 colleges for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were roughly 78 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent data year. Chemical Engineering degree recipients from Brigham Young University - Provo earn a boost of approximately $3,748 over the average earnings of chemical engineering majors.
U of U is a fairly large public university located in the city of Salt Lake City. A Best Colleges rank of #213 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means U of U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 86 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at U of U in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program report average early career earnings of $73,841.
Located in the small city of Bozeman, MSU Bozeman is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 2nd out of 12 schools for overall quality in the state of Montana.
There were approximately 90 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at MSU Bozeman in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, chem eng degree recipients usually earn about $62,206 at the beginning of their careers.
U of I is a large public university located in the town of Moscow. This university ranks 2nd out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were about 16 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent data year. Those chemical engineering students who get their degree from University of Idaho receive $2,098 more than the standard chem eng graduate.
UW is a large public university located in the remote town of Laramie. This university ranks 1st out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were about 41 chemical engineering students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program report average early career earnings of $46,398.
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.
