Chemical Engineering

  • Chemical engineers use chemistry to solve problems involving the production or use of chemicals and other products.
  • They design equipment and processes for large-scale chemical manufacturing, plan and test methods of manufacturing products and treating byproducts, and supervise production.

  • The starting bachelor's degree salary is around $65,000. The average bachelor's degree salary is around $85,000.

  • The emploment number is around 31,650 people. Employment is suspected to drop by 2%.

  • Chemical engineering is one of the lowest employed engineering discipline.

  • A bachelor's degree in chemical engineering is required to work as a chemical engineer.

  • The top three schools for chemical engineering are Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, and California Institute of Technology