Chemistry is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #51 most popular degree program in the country. 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 Alabama to determine which ones were the best for chemistry students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 278 degrees in chemistry annually.
Your choice of chemistry school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Chemistry 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Chemistry Schools in Alabama ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the chemistry degree levels they offer.
Auburn University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in chemistry. Auburn is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Auburn. A Best Colleges rank of #169 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Auburn is a great university overall.
There were about 39 chemistry students who graduated with this degree at Auburn in the most recent year we have data available.
The University of Alabama is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in chemistry. UA is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Tuscaloosa. This university ranks 3rd out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were roughly 70 chemistry students who graduated with this degree at UA in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in chemistry has to check out University of Alabama at Birmingham. Located in the city of Birmingham, UAB is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were about 58 chemistry students who graduated with this degree at UAB in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the chemistry program make around $33,931 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).
Your choice of chemistry school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Chemistry School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
