If you plan on majoring in chemical engineering, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #70 in the country in terms of popularity. 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 Utah 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 213 degrees in chemical engineering during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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 Utah list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of chem eng degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in chemical engineering has to take a look at Brigham Young University - Provo. Located in the city of Provo, BYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the chem eng program state that they receive average early career income of $67,199.
University of Utah is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in chemical engineering. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public university with a very large student population.
Students who receive their degree from the chem eng program make around $67,225 in their early career salary.
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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