Chemistry

Ranked in 2010 | Chemistry Rankings Methodology

With a graduate degree in chemistry, scientists may find jobs in laboratories, government agencies, research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, colleges and universities, and more. These are the best chemistry schools.

Rank School name Score
#21 University of California–​San Diego

La Jolla, CA

3.9
#21 University of Minnesota–​Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

3.9
#19 Texas A&M University–​College Station

College Station, TX

4.0
#19 University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

4.0
#16 Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

4.1
#16 University of California–​Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA

4.1
#16 University of Michigan–​Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI

4.1
#13 University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

4.2
#13 University of North Carolina–​Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

4.2
#13 Yale University

New Haven, CT

4.2
#12 University of Texas–​Austin

Austin, TX

4.3
#10 Columbia University

New York, NY

4.4
#10 Cornell University

Ithaca, NY

4.4
#7 Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

4.5
#7 Scripps Research Institute

La Jolla, CA

4.5
#7 University of Wisconsin–​Madison

Madison, WI

4.5
#6 University of Illinois–​Urbana-​Champaign

Urbana, IL

4.6
#4 Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

4.8
#4 Stanford University

Stanford, CA

4.8
#1 California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, CA

5.0
#1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA

5.0
#1 University of California–​Berkeley

Berkeley, CA

5.0

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Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings by Bob Morse
Correcting Dominican University of California's 2011 Admissions Statistics

Dominican misreported its number of applications to U.S. News and other data collectors.

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